CORRECTION: At 6:30, we (embarrassingly) claim that a 4% monthly inflation rate translates to an annual inflation rate of 160%. This is incorrect - it actually translates to an annual rate of 60% (we forgot to subtract 1 when we did the maths). Apologies for this sloppy error, and we hope you nonetheless enjoyed the video!
@@ArnabSaha-pm8id No, he is right. The exponentiation of 4% ends up with 60% over the course of a year. That's 4% on the month, and then 4% on the increased prices for the next month, etc. So it takes the new bases into account. If he didn't take the new base into account the rate would be 12*4% or 48%. The 60% includes the compounding.
A 4% monthly inflation rate translates to a yearly inflation of 1.04^12 which is about 1.6, meaning 60% inflation, not 160% like you stated in the video! So Milei's target of 18% YoY inflation actually isn't copletely unrealistic (but probably still way too optimistic)
@@luistbom "that usually gets things right" Don't know about 'usually'. I make it a habit of checking the comments sections for stuff like this in TLDR videos.
is not that crazy, it will mean like a 2-3% monthly inflation, core inflation is already travelling at that. Is pretty obvious that he will make it, his "0 emission" policies are being really agressive on that issue (there is still inflation because of subsidies cuts that means services prices increases and also interest rates cuts that means pesos deposits are not renewing their positions and goes back to the economy)
The elderly 70+ is being forced to work to pay for medications... they need more than good luck. I'm Brazilian and I'm totally astonished how things are deteriorating there. I visited Argentine in 2022., the situation was bad then, but people had means to live... these people don't deserve to treated like dogs in the end of their lives now 😓
But we don't have more than good luck, we can't go back to printing money to solve problems from the present, if we do we are screwing future generations with more inflation. We need to fix decades of poor resource management and reduce this massive and inefficient state that costs crazy amounts of money that could go to the elderly, health, education and defense @@dltn42
@@facumod1932 20% before Macri came to presidency, 40% before Milei came to presidency, graphics and statistics exist lil bro, i recommend you check them out before opening your mouth
@@elpanchomayonesa8069 Sooo literally the last goverment aumented it 40 percent yet ypu complain about it growing 20%? And even while obviously poverty scales so if it was 40 before he came in obviously nexts months it would keep increasing?!
It would have been strange if Milei would have fixed Argentina in a few months when the country has been struggling for decades. Only time will tell if Milei can fix the country
He can't, his whole ideology is about government not fixing anything. Argentina's problem is one of Geography, that why those that came before him was unable to fix it. Unless Milei can somehow move the land, don't see how he can change anything.
Yesterday I saw an article saying Milei was gaining traction, today he is out of steam. I feel like I’m seeing a modern telling of ‘The Little Engine that Could’ play out here but I can only hope for the people of Argentina that the ending is like the children’s tale.
Just see the graphs for poverty. Millei has managed to make families that always had a home live in the streets. All in the name of zeroing the national debt. Which he is far from doing. Argentina can just default the debt. It can be self sufficient.
It is already working, Argentina was on track to be bankrupt by now if it weren’t for him. Of course it will take more than a year to fix such a broken country but the progress is remarkable thus far
most of that was Milei taking the power in early December 2023 and a week later touching up the relation between dollars and pesos y the Central Bank, getting a 50 % inflation in a month.
It was 211% because of Milei. It was much lower before that. It went from around 100% to 200% in 3 months because of the changes he introduced to the peso.
@@zemm9003 the "unofficial", meaning the REAL inflation was much highier before Milei. What Milei did is that he made the REAL, inflation official so it was at least clear, how bad the situation really is. It was also mentioned in this video, you should watch it.
lol with a right winger in power? Dude made millions lose jobs overnight with his policies for short term metrics improvement which looks like isn’t even working anymore
Those experiments are important for humanity. To optimize any complex system (like political and financial system), people need to have a variety of systems, some of which should have large deviation from the current best system in order to escape the local minimum trap of the current best system. This means over "bad" system like monarch, theocracy, and other authoritarian system in general should also exist as a minority of all current political systems. For instance, maybe theocracy is nearly the only way to avoid low birthrate... or maybe an absolute authoritarianism without the incentive of corruption, turns out to out perform democracy in the age of social media where the quality of popular opinion go into a spiral of negative feedback loops.
As an Argentinian I think it's a worth risk to take, we have one the largest countries in the world, full of natural resources and far from the main conflictive countries, however we gone from the best country in the world in 1.895 to now being one of the worse, we destroy 5 currency: peso moneda nacional, peso ley, peso argentino, australes and now peso. We had many presidents from all kinds of ideology and every single one has fuck up the economy. I think that's why a lot of people are enduring this very hard times without complaining, if the crazy man with two master's degrees in economy can't fix the country then we are doom to fail forever.
@@stephanusghibellino dear leftards: no matter how much you repeat that Milei hates woman, old peolple, the poor and children, no one is going to believe your lies. Also, since Milei took office you have been saying that "Milei is leaving in December, then January, February, March and so on..." people are already laughing at you guys.
When public sector spending is a large chunk of GDP (37%), cutting the public sector spending is going to reduce GDP until the private sector can grow to step in. So, yes, GDP will fall.
Private sector investment tends to follow Public sector investment though. The Private sector likes to see that the state has confidence in the economy before it significantly invests itself.
More than half of Argentine government spending is for pensions and government job salaries and benefits so it does make sense to drastically reduce them so that the private sector employment will flourish.
It's sad how difficult things have become in the present generation. I was wondering how to utilise some money I had. I used some of it for e-commerce business, but that sank. I'm thinking of how to use what's left to invest, but I don't really know which way to go.
It's a good idea to seek advice at the moment, unless you're an expert yourself. As someone who runs a service business and sells products on eBay, I can tell you that the economy is struggling and many people are struggling financially.
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@@stephanusghibellino Javier Milei lowered inflation from 25% to 4%, took negative dollar reserves and increased them (recently he spent part of them but it was to pay debt that HE DID NOT TAKE, it comes from the past administration), began to cut taxes (and not necessarily for the rich) and deregulate hyper-regulated sectors in the economy. All this in 8 months of government in which the opposition has directly sabotaged everything he has proposed. Honestly, either you are not informed because coincidentally they always come up with bad numbers or make horrible mistakes whenever they talk about him (check the pinned comment of this video and the others in which they talk about him), or you have a problem with his ideology or with him himself. Explain to me: What moves you to say that he has not done anything?
@@stephanusghibellino Y que queres capo, mejorar con el kirchnerismo que nos dejó un país destruido con 50% pobres, jubilaciones de 80 dolares dolar de 60 a 1200 en los últimos 4 años, sin contar que aumentaron la deuda pública en 120 mil millones de dólares?
Thats what I'm thinking. "Security" often translates to "comfort and protection of those in control". Watch, all the private business that may move in to fill new vaccuums will likely have some small tie back to his pocket or the pockets of those friendly to him. Thats how this shit always goes. What he is doing is going beyond "trimmimg the fat" he's cutting the social safety net to the bone and then throwing it to the dogs.
exactly. just wait until he loses and don't recognize the result and claim fraud just like trump and bolsonaro. in fact, before loosing he'll already start to cast doubt in the electoral system. for trump the fake problem was the mail paper votes, for bolsonaro, it was the eletronic voting machines. let's see what milei's fake reason is gonna be. in the us, the army didn't play along but trump attempted a coup in january 6th. in brazil, the armed forces were divides and on the fence and bolsonaro attempted a coup in january 8th. plus, there's always the path of changing the electoral system for him to keep getting reelected, like orban, erdogan and maduro. they all need the army at their side. or at least with their pockets full and not opposing them
The reporter didnt put a lot of effort in explaining. We are looking to go to war, that was never the tradition in Argentine foreign policy. The Falklands War was a unique political move in that sense by an Argentine government, which I remind you was the last attempt to keep a nationalist military dictatorship in power. What Milei seeks is to recompose and rearm the Argentine Armed Forces that were dismantled after the return of democracy, our military did not have bullets to train, we did not have active fighter planes, our prefecture could not take action on illegal fishing in our sea , the border has become a sieve for drugs. On the other hand, it is seeking to be an external ally of NATO, which is why it increased the national budget by 2.1%, just as NATO asks of all its members. Don't take us Argentines for fools, we never seek war, we are a pacifist people.
Hi, argentinian here. I've seen a lot of comments talking about how "this proves how free market and shiet doesn't work" and things alike, but I haven't seen anyone talking about real solutions, so could you, dear foreigners who just watched a video explain to me your plans to save Argentina? The more civil the discussion, the better.
La mayoría son europeos acostumbrados con sus altos niveles de vida (o estadunidenses que quieren copiar a los europeos), creen que son los mejores del mundo y que cualquier cosa que no sea intentar copiar a su Estado de bienestar va a resultar en un desastre. No se dan cuenta de que estan a camino de tornarse países de tercer mundo y que Argentina está implementando las políticas que la hicieron el país más rico del mundo antes de Yrigoyen y Perón.
The free market does work, its just not overnight. Argentina has decades of malinvestment and debt to sort out. This is going to take years to sort out. Whilst im not a fan of milie his economic policies arent too bad
Sure, cut health budgets and quadruple military spending on a continent that has had more military coups than actual wars. The only wars since WW2 being a short one between Ecuador and Peru in 1995 and a war between Argentina and the UK over the Falkland Islands in 1982. Sure Argentina is abundant in natural resources and so may be unable to go the Costa Rica route, but surely the status quo is sufficient in the current geopolitical climate.
@@JSK010 in general i would say yes. All of those programmes provide more value to their economy than the military would. Im sure spending on health is a net positive investment for most countries. Pensions were paid into by the recipients and welfare at least attempts to keep people out of poverty and gets spent bavk into the economy.0 When they buy new military equipment thay is not produced there that is just money leaving the country that buys equipment that sits on military bases.
Why government should pay for education and healthcare? The function of a nation administration is to provide Justice and Safety. No more. If you like socialdemocrat systems you'll go broke in two or three generations. And that's exactly what Argentina did in the last century. Read from opposite sources and learn.
Countries need protecting, too. Don't forget that the country experienced two major terrorist attacks (AMIA and Israeli embassy), there is an insurrgent , radicalized and violent group of so called Mapuche tribes that carry out attacks and sets fires in some places of Patagonia (and in some places in Chile, too) , the islamic republic of Iran is suspected of assassinating an important federal prosecutor in his apartment in Buenos Aires, there is also a big drug and criminal gang problem in Santa Fe Province, there is a large border in the north and north east that is used for smuggling purposes, drugs, crime , etc... and lots of other international and national problems and other stuff that would require military power or intervention. Milei is an ardent supporter of Zelenski and Kiev and russia has ties to former corrupt politicians like Alberto Fernández and Cristina Fernández de Kirchner. There's been a large influx of russians settleing in Argentina, some could be spies, agitators or worse. Our military had been definanced for decades , using old equipment that would not work or fare well against the threats. Also, there is the enormous Mar Argentino that has been depredated constantly by other countries, China is in that bag, as well . I seem to remember warning shots fired at some chinese boats and 1 that was sunk or boarded by the maritime police here... In addition, Milei is an enemy of Venezuelan ultra corrupt Nicolás Maduro. the Castro regime, ortega , etc. They could all disrupt life in Argentina at any time. Argentina needs protecting, is a big country in terms of landmass (it makes the top ten, if am not mistaken) and quite vulnerable and old, antique stuff in the military and intelligence agencies... Milei had a spat with spain's Pedro Sánchez, he could finance crime here out of spite, too. As he was publicly and globally shamed...
@@FloweryLilium yeah true I just like to shit post. I also just have big dislike for people who claim to be pro small state, cause they cut things like education social funding and taxes, while increasing police and military funding.
@@SchnitzelfoxArgentina just doesn't have the money for anything that isn't the bare minimum to continue existing, hence the military and police still being required spending, especially with Venezuela trying to start a war in the continent A small state isn't no state either
@@SneedSeeding Luis Acre was almost overthrown until the people of Bolivia came out and supported him and the military backed down. The leaders of the attempt were immediately arrested and revoked of their titles
@@cageybee7221 cause usually I’ve seen what happens if the people stand up to them the military immediately turns against their own people and guns them down
I'm no economist, but I know GDP measures both private sector activity and government spending. What Milei needs is not just government spending cuts, but also increases in private sector activity to offset decreases in GDP because of government spending cuts. So there needs to be investment by the private sector, especially from foreign companies, to help grow Argentina's economy, which is what I think Milei is going for.
Private sector is shrinking under Milei. Most jobs lost are in the private sector. We explain this many times. If you cut public expenditure, people will have less money and buy less wich will provoke the shrinking of the private sector. Specially in a country like Argentina where most of the people consume is made localy.
Exactly, I'm not against budget cuts but if the Conservative government in the UK has taught us anything it's that without PROPER private sector investment those cuts are useless
@@percelomalsdaSo, what you are saying is that Argentina is now trapped in a statist hell which can never be escaped. Unless the government prints money to give to consumers, the people will simply go without? Personally, I’d go get a job rather than starve, but I guess Argentinians prefer to go on hunger strikes?
@@halohunter111 And he is falling spectacularly. Even his personal argentinian businessman friends prefer to invest in Lula's Brasil rather than Argentina. Who will want to invest in a country where people buy less every day?
if inflation stabilizes, it can be dealt with. If it continues to climb, that's a killer. It will be interesting to see if he can pull it off. Ripping the bandage off can be hard.
For Argentina's case, pumping defense spending isn't the way to increase defense capability in the foreseeable future. There's hardly anything to work with. 2% of a measly GDP won't get you any notable and results altering capabilities above the currently abysmal 0.5%. Better to supercharge the economic recovery first. Then there'll be cash around to invest into what's needed, civil and military.
Military spending is really negligible compared to the numbers that really matter. And you just cannot have a so big a country without a credible deterrent.
@@myBestWishes677 You can, Argentina has proven it in the last two decades... Their military has been a joke for at least that long, and no one has invaded them 🤣
To be fair, I have no idea why milei is considered a good economist. Nothing from his performance so far, let alone his moronic discourses before teh elections, point to good ideas or methods. The only thing he has done more or less ok is dealign with itnerest rates but the way hes done it is no different than before, only faster and he is running out of steam
i believe commenting on milei goverment in a day to day, month to month or even year to year basis is not helpful. i personally believe milei actually has a 4 year (minimum) plan and the results of milei could only be seen after his administration is over. if it wanted short term gains he would not make anything hes doing right now.
Economy is my hobby and I find it fascinating to see exactly what I expect in real time. - the unoficial (thus real) inflation rate being made official, resulting in worse looking numbers, but at least it's number shat reflect reality - leftist autistic screeching that Milei is a monster and is preventing the rise of the ultimate global socialism so "great" for everybody - cutting the money supply from the government bank with residual inflation still coming out from the institution and investment sector for YEARS before the consumer sector inflation of prices will stop rising - drop in GDP because the government stopped doing stuff. This creates an economic vacuum that will gradualy be filled by private companies. Without government subsidies this will take decades, but will result in a healthy and wealthy economy - next in line are the assasination attempts. I guarantee you that we will see a LOT of assasination attempts on Milei encouraged by the Russian, Chineese and European propaganda. - if assasination attempts and propagandizinh the argentinian people will be unsuccesfull, we will see a small rise in GDP every upcoming year. Few years after that, argentinian people will be a little bit wealthier every year. It will be a looong and rough road. Lol, you know what, I will post shis also as a separate post
@@pebblepod30 Because our past administrations (a lot) payed 0 attention to the military budget and in military terms we were EMPTIED. That’s the reason.
argentina has 0 active submarines, the meko 360 and 140 are the same as they were in the 80s, the helicopters are from the 50s and so on. argentina the 8 largest country in the world spends 0.46% of GDP on military, they are destroyed to the point that they cant protect the country.
We had austerity for 14 years in the UK. No nothing is better. The economy isn't stronger. Its weaker. The highest period of sustained growth was in the 60s when we employed Keynesian economics. Why? Because when ordinary people have money in their pockets they spend it
This is the hard truth that libertarians refuse to accept. Libertarianism has been so thoroughly discredited that it's amazing that people still hold those views.
@@aaronsmith1474 it's basically communism for right wingers. A stupid idea that can sound good when you don't really think about it. Failed a thousand times, but maybe this time it might work.
@@aaronsmith1474this just isn’t true saving leads to investment which leads to long term growth this sort of environment creates a setting for frictionless capital investment not the opposite
the problem with people is not learning enough about situations and then making comments with nothing backing it. UK and Argentina are vastly different. I'm Portuguese, if we hadn't had austerity we would've taken greeces' time to recover. Plus you, being from the UK, don't know what it is to live in a country that only cares about short term politics. In portugal we only leave our houses at 33 y.o. because the socialists and communists spent all the money possible to have the elderly on their payroll. TAXES SO HIGH that makes Romanians' salary look like rich people over here. NO ONE wants to suffer short term for a better life in the future and thats why more than 90% of the wealth is owned by 40+ age group, they own the houses, they have their life put together and we the young pay taxes so they can maintain their lifestyle. A house here costs 14 TIMES my annual salary as a Software Engineer (I DONT EVEN LIVE IN LISBON, where the price are double what it is in my city) in london, the most expensive city of the UK, if I had the average salary I'd buy a house with only 10 annual salaries. You talk from a place of privilege
I noticed this too, it's fascinating! When socialists get 40 years of chances it's still "oh wow things are a mess, thank God for the socialist policy though because just think how bad it would be if we didn't have that to help us given how bad things are!" but with a libertarian leader they are blamed for all the problems and it's declared their policies are a failure after literally just a few months of it not fixing everything. This just goes to show the power of what a policy says on the tin. If a "child poverty reduction policy" does nothing to reduce child poverty it will still get A LOT of lee way just because it CLAIMS to reduce it. The inverse is also true, a policy of cutting programs in a way that is on paper indifferent to the problems they were meant to solve is lambasted for being callous and cruel even if the data shows the country is having dismal outcomes in the area the program being cut ostensibly fixes. I can see why this makes sense, why would you repeal the thing that says it fixes the problem you want solved? It makes sense people are fooled: convincing people of the value of freedom over intervention / Peronism can be counterintuitive, it's hard to fight against marketing that simply claims it will solve everything, even when you have data to show it's not helping and hasn't been for decades.
I mean he was the one who made bold promises to fix everything and secondly no one is expecting a miracle or denying the problems the economy had beforehand. I'm an economist for a living and I don't really think it was necessary to increase the poverty rate 15% to solve this problem.
The problem isnt that people want him to fix the economy in a snap but he obliterated it in a snap 20% of the industry gone over 57% of the population on the povertry line now from 40% 2 years ago so yeah... Milei comes butfuck the economy and then you say "well its beem only 6 months" yea imagine the damage he will do in 4 years
We who are opposed to him, did not expect him to solve anything, we are only waiting for him to fail and give up. The people who was expecting miracles was his followers, because he himself had promised miracles.
It's usually the policy that stimulates the economy. The budget alone cannot move the economy without a favorable policy. If the business environment is good, business will thrive, and tax collection also increase.
Taxes for what? This becoming a Libertarian society. By cutting taxes, the people get to keep their income to invest into businesses once the gross subsidies vanish from the market since prices have been fixed for decades. Stuff like this could take years. His goal is to return the government to its basic principles, protecting human rights and property. Taxes would only fund the necessary functions of governance. I.e. congress. Police/fire, departments, Courts so on and so on.
The fact that's being obscured by thos video is that most of the deficit in the gdp is due to cut in public spending which was massive in argentina prior to milei, also if you look into the private sector a lot of the construction and real state industry is showing sharp signs of growth
Give Milei a chance. There are many factors outside his control. It will be amazing if he can pull it off and I doubt any of his retractors are going to admit they were wrong if he does.
@@sephoramandondo2548 nah, he is a declared Thatcher/Raegan fanatic, and a pro pseudo jew Israel fanatic too. No way he is going against the boots he loves to lick.
Argentina barely spends on the military any increase would be big. They have been spending lower than the maintenance cost and most vehicles don't work
@@JokeShinet Let's say you have 100 dollars and you want to spend 300 dollars, if you cut your spending then you went end up in debt. It's not ambitious, it's just the sensible thing to do. When you have 300 dollars then you can spend that, but not before.
Because our air force most lethal plane is a Cesna, our navy biggest ship is a corvette and the army tanks can't beat a ww2 t-34. Argentina didn't expend a dime in defense since 1990.
This is basically whoring the country away. You need real economy not just some financial manipulation. And Argentina is very far away from major markets.
It is working out. Slowly. Major banks give loans so that ppl can own houses. That happens in a variety of countries. It didnot happen in argentina for decades. The stock market is in somewhat good shape, security and safety is improving a bit, corrupt politicians are finally getting investigatedby justice, etc.
He promised more investment from the private sector but it will take pain to get their, the pain has delivered for the Argentina people and investors are losing faith if his plan would aspire investment we would see this the effects (better conditions) would show later but we don't even see investments by the private sector
No, they just want to shit on him for not fixing everything in 73 seconds out of hypocrisy and their inability to accept electoral defeats, this isn't the first time that this happens
Austerity appears to work in the short term but in the long term it just destroys everything but when you are in a Democracy it doesn't matter because by the time everything crashes down it's another administration's problem.
Austerity works, the problem with austerity is when you don't back it up with tax cuts. The problem with the UK was that its beautiful government said: I'll stop funding healthcare and that's it, which obviously left it underfunded because if you don't back it up with deregulation/tax cuts so that the private sector absorbs that portion that you stopped funding, then it will be a disaster.
@@segiraldovi the "private sector" won't step up without heavy government subsidies, and then it often gives the same or even worse service at 15x the price, some things just don't benefit from being privatised.
There is a reason that we don’t use monthly data (and it’s 60% not 160%). It often is heavily revised and can drive policy based on few datapoints. Stable inflation is far better than volatile inflation because contracting parties can better anticipate future gains. That is singularly needed for large scale investments.
A government whose stated purpose is not to solve anything with the use of public resources and who expects private capital to solve everything. Brilliant! Good luck with that.
No the gov is not spending so much and thus lowering pressure on companies that actually pay the taxes. Companies grow, the number of jobs and taxes increases and the rest will follow
And your solution is to increase the government spending amd thus force the companies to pay mpre taxes for that money to come? Because obviously taxes must be increased to increase government spending and government spending must be reduced in order to cut taxes. And businesses need smaller taxes in order to be able to grow to produce and sell more and hire people. This is how the private sector works. Ever considered that you don't need to control everything and everyone to run the country?
The rising interest rate can surely control inflation, but won't prevent erosion of the eroding purchasing power of the US dollar. I have learnt my lesson this time. The banks can't be making money off my money, while inflation eats into it. I have set aside 650k to invest in the stock market now, since that keeps up with inflation, but I don't know how to get started.
Financial consultants can help by recommending investments that outpace inflation, such as real estate or certain stocks. A client of mine followed this strategy and saw their savings grow by 15_% in just two years, effectively countering inflation.
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That one peso bill hasn't been used for decades. Actually it is part of a previous currency also called "peso" (peso de curso legal) it would be more accurate to use a $1000 peso bill, because there is no $1 bill
No its not , the rich love monetary expansion, they control the means of production and a lot of assets, expansion means more profits and asset price inflation. What benefits both rich and poor is stability and low inflation . Dont be a loser , do what must be done, everyone will benefit in the end.
@@marcv2648 Agriculture exports won't do any good for the country and economy either. caloric goods (food, fuel) are worth over the currency, income from the export with those will do more harm than any good.
Government economies that have their own currency don't really need to run on a surplus even if it is a plus if it does. What they need to do is to improve the people's economies so they have better purchasing power, which will increase demand and, in turn, will increase investments to fill that demand. You don't do that by destroying the welfare state. Sure, it will lower wages and increase exports but will mostly help big corporations and not the people's economies.
Hi there Javier Milei did not remove the welfare program, he slashed incompetent and corrupt sectors of the public works programs that were the states money for corruption and money laundering such as the note book scandal in which millions of dollars was funneled into fake housing projects that were never built or the numerous soup kitchens that were created by the former Kirchnerist government that was meant for the needy that didn't exist. When Javier Milei discovered what was going on he took action and launched criminal proceedings against several of the corrupt kirchnerists/Peronists politicians this is why he has slashes some of these public sectors and reduced incompetent staff to pave for a more transparent efficient Government! You want the true inside story go to LA Nacion or Las Ves Jonathan Viale their Argentine news channels you can use the youtube translator or id you understand Spanish then you will realise the true story for what it is! Javier Milei is a blessing for Argentina and has the brains and balls to move Argentina into a new prosperous path!
No one ever claimed reforms would be easy or be immediate. It’s going to take years for an economy addicted to government stimulus to get back on track. Blame past politicians and bureaucrats for spending and reckless borrowing. It’s now time to pay the price of past poor public sector decisions to lay the foundations of a more prosperous future.
Here in Brazil, monetary policy hawks are in despair because of inflation of 4% per year. The center of the target is 3% and the ceiling of the target is 4.5%. GDP is growing at about 3% per year. Things seem to be going very well here, and we have a center-left government. I think the problem is not ideology, but the Argentine mania of thinking that there are miracle solutions to economic problems every 4 years. They always go very radically in one direction and then undo everything, and this process is always very expensive, generates legal uncertainty and debt. If there were a minimum consensus, as there is in Brazil, Argentina might not be in such a bad situation.
i don't think you are correct. Argentina didn't go to a very radically direction with every goverment. all of them went for the same direction, more goverment, more goverment agency, more goverment spending. in 2000 was like 20% and in 2023 was like 40% of the total gdp. and thats only 20 years, argentina is going this direction for almost a century.
there's no consensus though. It's institutions. Lula is trying to implement a PAC 3 but to do that it needs to increase spending but it cant because of central bank's indenpendence, golden rule, Central bank's inability to finance treasury and etc...
@@martin-dw You've never studied Argentinian history then, in the 90s or even Macri's goverment were totally pro-market and in Menem's case reduced the state at it's minimum
@@mosaloquendo Menems first administration was KIINDA pro-market, specially taking in mind how was before, but TOTALLY is very a big statment. and Macri was totally a social democrat, yeah he cut spending (42% from 47%) but only a bit and at the cost of getting a giant loan. If Macri is "totally pro-market" What the fuck is Milei to you? the god of capitalism? I think you are very at the left my friend and everything you see is far-right
@@martin-dw To Me, Milei is that he says he is, an anarcho-capitalist. And how on earth is privatizing the national airline, water, electricity, gas, railways, ports, banks, the state oil company, and even the post office (!!!) is just kinda pro-market to you? I get that Macri didn't deregulate at Milei's pace but he left goverment on a 0,5% primary deficit. To me my friend, your sympathy for Milei is making you biased, he's not the first capitalist president in 100 years and most of his ideas were tried before. You could argue that they were poorly implemented, but financial deregulation, privatization and austerity are not new to Argentina.
Yeah it's 160% of the base. But that would imply that 98% inflation is actually deflation (since 100% would be no change), which is how nobody in the world uses inflation. Not even their own other numbers (the 4%) works that way, so this is just a very sloppy mistake, particularly since it makes the numbers about 3x as bad as they are. 160% inflation would imply a +160% change, so 2.6x, rather than 1.6x. (but the real number is 1.6x)
@@segiraldovi Yes, that's what I said. That they made the mistake of saying the inflation is 160%, while they ment 160% of the base (so the new price is 160% of what it was, which means the price increased by 60%), which would be +60% inflation, or just 60% inflation, which is how everyone understands inflation.
I don't know bro, we are haveing the lowest inflation in years. Yeah, it's a lot by a normal country standars. But its the first time in decades that the bich goes down, insted of up.
It's still very silly that there is not just *one* exchange rate for the dollar. That's still a horrible mess. The one and only exchange rate for the US dollar should be the free market rate, or the "blue" rate.
I come from the future. The peso is gaining value against the USD, monthly inflation is on the lower single digit range, cristina kirchner was condemned fater long years of trials, homicide rates in Rosario are down 60%, employment in the public sector is on a negative trend, spending is DOWN, 11 useless ministeries have been closed and the general sensation on my group of friends is that the country has a chance to be in the 1st world bracket in the next 30 years (after more than 110 years in a downtrend).
Argentina's gvt budget is running a surplus, at the cost of reducing public services. So, why does milei think i would now be more interested in investing/relocating production to argentina? If the gvt is spending less on the workforce, what, is he expecting me to pick up the tab in order to waive export rates? If i cant get workers due to illness or poor travel, i wont get exports..
@@HOI4notsoproplayer the new tax measures get almost no taxes for foreign companies, but the costs for producing, transporting and delivering things in dollars is more expensive than in nearby countries, you could pay pennies for the workforce, but all else is astronomically expensive than in Paraguay, Brasil, or Chile.
@@marinamunoz7117 mostly because taxes on other things such as transportations are yet to be changed, its been only a few months after all but i can tell you brazil is far more expensive, mostly because we litterally have THREE transportation taxes, along with bilions of other taxes that i didint even think were possible to exist
Austerity is just a wonkier term for under-investing in the future (see: UK under the Tories). But finding the line between austerity vs. cutting waste/inefficiency/vanity-projects is hard.
It is crucial not to throw all kinds of austerity measures into one basket and compare them all with what Thatcher did. Greece had gone through about a decade of austerity prescribed by the EU and the IMF and are now on a very positive trajectory. Argentina has even more reasons to cut back on government spending, given their exorbitant public sector. So while austerity has often made a sudden crisis worse in an otherwise good economy, it is sometimes necessary in an economy where populist or corrupt governments wasted huge sums of money.
@@TheSandkastenverbot while thatchers austerity was harsh, government finance in the 90s compared to 1979 was night and day difference, it's the groundwork laid by thatcher that enabled to big spend under the Blair years
ikr, increasing military spending they claim to be broke yet cutting education/healthcare; the very things that grow an economy. And letting foreign corporations completely tax free free and completely free from environmental regulations. It's not like most shit hole countries have companies dumping toxic chemicals into the soil, water and air.
Facts until November: Inflation keep descending, now 10 times lower since he assumed power. Public image totally good. Every week he discovers another case of corruption. He is winning the war against human and drug trafficking. Argentina has raised 90 steps in economic freedom, the ONLY way to move out of poverty. Poverty started to descend. Economy equal to before he assumed. Conclusion: TOTAL SUCCESS.
First world countries are struggling right now. Perhaps the worst time to take on all the issues with Argentina but perhaps Argentina would’ve not survived the coming recession otherwise.
Resource rich is actually one of the main drivers for unstable goverments. If you can get money from other sources than the population itself as a government it is much easier to maintain a corrupt goverment (or even outright dictatorship). The vast majority of resource rich countries are poorly run. And those that aren't usually already were stable countries before they found the riches (such as Norway, and to a lesser extend, the USA). A stable democracy is actually very hard to get and even harder to maintain. It's kind of a miracle that quite a lot of countries have managed to do it at all. Argentina doesn't have a long tradition of a democracy (only since 1983).
I AGREE DO YOUR RESEARCH IT ALL COMMENCED WITH THE PERONISTS/KIRCHNERISTS BEFORE THAT HAPPENED ARGENTINA WAS THE MOST PROSPEROUS AND ADVANCED NATION ON EARTH BY THE TURN OF THE 20TH CENTURY! THE PERONISTS HAD GOOD INTENTIONS AT THE BEGINNING WITH THE PUSH FOR INDUSTRIALIZED GOODS AND SERVICES AND MANUFACTURING HOWEVER THEY BECAME TO OVER PROTECTIONIST WITH SOME OF THEIR INDUSTRIES AND POLICIES WHICH HAD A GRADUAL EFFECT ON ARGENTINA'S ECONOMIC OUTLOOK BUT THE BIGGEST NEGATIVE IMPACT WAS WHEN THE PERONISTS BEGAN TO PRINT MORE MONEY ITS WHEN THE NIGHTMARE COMMENCED! MILEI IS DESTINED TO FIX ARGENTINA'S LONG TERM CHAOS AND HE WILL THROUGH HIS BRAINS COURAGE AND GOING AGAINST THE GRAIN IN ORDER TO ACHIEVE A NEW PROSPEROUS ARGENTINA! VIVA LA LIBERTAD!🦁
@@jaspermooren5883 Mira esto explica un poco ! en 1990 Argentina saco la ley de Mineria que solo mantiene por 30 años regalias a un 3 % con dos minas entre las mas grande del mundo de oro !. 30 años ! lo que sacas no se controla ! o sea que si un pais extranjero esta obteniendo una tasa del 5 % en algun bono de eeuu esta pagando practicamente todo !!.. aparte de amortizar en el tiempo el capital ! y sigue pasando lo msimo ! Argentina es idiota ! ese es el problema ! Ahora pasa lo mismo ! todo regalado a años !! Somos de baja democracia ! Argentian tiene un problema que no piensa en ella !! y asi con las rutas comerciales etc etc ! si no existe un plan minimo de industrializar !! imposible somos idiotas !! nos guiamos en politcas y beneficios de otros !..
@@jaspermooren5883 They talk about Singapore having the advantage to not have any resources and so developed their economy in the free market without the temptation to government. Also natural resources don't make a country rich, it's manufacturing and free markets that develop a country. Look at all the African nations with lots of resources but no development. Making cars and phones and tv's from those resources is where the value is, not pulling stones out of the ground.
After seeing Al Jazeera show half the population living off struggling soup kitchens, I'd have to say say either, 'no it's not working', or 'yes, but at what cost...'
The last goverment in its final days started spending like crazy to see if they could win, now there was literally no other way, no one is lending mony to argentina and we are broke soo...
That’s really not true. Argentina is doing just like it always did. Last year, under the previous administration, the poverty rate was already around 50%. Fixing a country’s economy doesn’t automatically lift people out of poverty, specially not when the thing that was keeping people out of poverty was at the very same time destroying the economy. The previous government was making everyone poorer, just to make some people less poor in the short term. That’s actually not helpful, and it’s not addressing the real underlying issues that make people poor, it’s dirty populism.
Yes that half of population under poverty is what peronism had left in the country, they don"t appears spontanously they got empoverish by a system that just care about the interest of politicians, and they were who vote for milei.
Argentina was already in a slope down. Do you think Argentina out of all countries would scape the Covid pandemic economical crisis?, people are getting poorer globally so it is an obvious faith. The reason why they are like that is because their products are not good enough for foreign investors to invest or buy from it. The only thing that can solve that is Milei doing business with the Chinese for example to boost certain industries to help cut down the prices. After that, a short path towards economical development with other developed economies could help alleviate the issue long term while also modernizing their local industries and maybe formalizing the economy.
No. its something logical with such strict policies... The problem it their long standing effects... Hay que dejar de convertir mamarrachos locales en figuras religiosas y empezar a usar la cabeza... Asï les va
TLDR is neither unbiased nor impartial because you guys obviously are looking at these libertarian policies through your progressive liberal lenses. You guys never were impartial. But I do thank you for covering Milei's policies, even though you have a distorted view of it looking through your liberal lenses.
A couple of notes: Milei's name is pronounced "Me-lay", with an accent on the second syllable. Also, more concerning than the raise in military spending is the one in the intelligence services, which have been historically opaque and used to persecute and spy on political opponents. Also, his plan calls for transferring all educational and health-care expenditures to the provinces while at the same time asking them to cut their budgets by 60 billion dollars.. what could go wrong?
Spoilers : no. A few will get richer and 10 years later people will be even more miserable because they ll have to pay these few to get access to basic necessities.
Milei is no free market economist, he is an anarcho-capitalist. So what he is doing actually should not work, especially when combined with extreme austerity in the middle of a recession. But we also know no economy behaves like Argentina. So let's see how this experiment with the Argentinian people turns out.
@@adamelghalmi9771 New Zealand did not have high inflation, dysfunctional institutions and it did not start with extreme austerity but with free market reforms. But also New Zealand benefitted from high commodity prices and wealthy immigrants. None of these factors apply to Argentina.
To anyone that might be interested, this government started on Dec. 2023 and the inflation since has been: Dec. 25.5% Jan. 20.6% Feb. 13.2% March 11% April 8.8% May 4.3% June 4.6% Jul. 4% Aug. 4.2% If it is assumed an inflation of 4.0% for the rest of the year means that the year-on-year Dec-Dec inflation is going to be 598% or the 2024 inflation is going to be 456%.
So Milei lowered inflation to the lowest in the last 2 years, but you say inflation is triple of the last year with previous government that was 211%? I think you messed up the numbers because with the data you sent the Dec-Dec inflation would be 175.17% and the 2024 inflation would be 128.03%.
@@Max_Power_ Great! You got the numbers right, now I'll take what you just wrote: With the data you sent the Dec-Dec inflation would be 175.17% and the 2024 inflation would be 128.03% And that is the lowest inflation in the past two years?? Obviously you understand that 175.17>128.03, so what is the "achievement" of reaching a 4% monthly inflation when the year on year has even larger than of 2024? Sure you have to assume a flat inflation rate of 4% for the rest of the year. I truly hope that's the case but, is that a realistic assessment?
I feel that this commentator speaks as if he would be speaking about an european country. He does not understand why Milei got elected, and thinks that Argentinians react to Milei as people would react in Spain!!! The report is somewhat missleading and the numbers mentioned are just plain wrong.
I, an argentinian, quite like the fact that you (a british channel) made more than one good quality video about our situation. It is because of our historic ties, which are not great, that I like you.
I can assure you that absolutely nobody in the UK gives a flying fart about the “historic ties” with Argentina. Nobody here thinks of you as an enemy, in much the same way that only around 1% of the US population would be able to identify Vietnam on an unlabelled map.
One possible reason for increasing military spending is to create a “Peace Keeper Force” a lot of small, economically struggling countries basically export their militaries for peacekeeping missions. Their troops get sent to some god forsaken war zone and the UN pays their homeland big bucks for its trouble. In a lot of cases the US will also support missions with free or cheaper gear and logistical support. He may be hoping that increasing the number of troops, improving equipment and training a bit and then sending them to the UN will pay for itself in the long run. If this sounds familiar it’s because it is the latest evolution in a system that started with condotieri in the Middle Ages leading into the auxiliary system of the 17th century and now to the peace keeping militaries of today. Functionally little has changed but we’ve gone through great lengths to make it look like it changed a lot.
I think that buying outdated military junk from OTAN countries is a way to get in that scene and those contacts for that side of the world, something that was not possible before because we have the Malvinas occupied by an UK operation military base, and the way to get over that, is to give up our right on the Islands like Milei wants. I don't think that 40 years are enough to get over that war, maybe next generation would be friendly and ally with Uk, maybe not.
no nation can earn money out straight from sending peace troops. sending troops on other's soil is nasty business and drives the nation into troubles with multiple fronts. only scenario where sending in troops turns out to be profitable is protecting the strategic interests and strategic asset overseas, like US sending in troops in middle east to stabilize gasoline supply, china sending in troops to protect it's overseas ports, India sending in troops to install puppets on voiceless neighbours. these are the only instances in near past. UN peace force is another subject, it won't earn you anything. it will cost you instead. what you mentioned in your comment is just about how a mercenary operates., a state cannot run a mercenary. BTW the actual reason for increasing the military spending is to feed the arms manufacturers from the north and to integrate the Argentine defence with the north, so the alliance will stay forever. Political, ideological coordination between the two nations won't last for ever, either one will drift away eventually. but a military coordination/integration/alliance will last forever. Countries which bought Soviet weapons still hanging out with Russia, that's how it works. Equipments needs to be upgraded, maintained, troops need to be trained and instructed to operate the equipments, the coordination keeps on going. that's what Milei is preparing the Argentina for, an long-lasting tie with USA.!
@@sk-dr8zu this just isn’t true. The United Nations has dedicated funds to pay countries that send their troops on peacekeeping missions and the United States also pledges funds for certain missions, as they did with the Kenyan mission to Haiti. These funds are supposed to be used to pay the soldiers and to help pay for replacement equipment and feeding the soldiers and such. But the country that sent the soldiers is the one reporting how much it costs them to feed the soldiers and pay their salaries. If they say it costs them $100,000 to maintain the peacekeeping force but it actually costs them $95,000 they get to just pocket $5,000. A lot of the countries that regularly send peacekeepers are not known for their reliable accounting or lack of corruption. Brazil was the last country in Haiti and both its current and former presidents were known to be corrupt, with those under them probably not being any more discerning. India is another one with a questionable accounting record. It can be difficult to prove or disprove their payment requests and both the US and UN would rather a peacekeeping force exist than not exist so they are willing to throw extra money at the problem than embark on decades long forensic account campaigns against the 2 or 3 countries that were willing to volunteer. Not to mention even with a bit of graft it is still cheaper than the US or Europe doing it themselves with their own forces so again, it’s still a win just slightly more expensive than it could’ve been. This is a known thing, the west just turns a blind eye because they get what they want for less than if they did it themselves so they don’t really care. Plus, these are peacekeeping missions, normally having very little active fighting. It’s rare that these deploy to active war zones and when they do it’s usually western militaries that lead them like the U.S. in the Korean peacekeeping mission. These countries aren’t sending their troops into the Somme or whatever wild fantasy you’ve crafted around the idea, theyre sending them to rural Haiti or something where they just walk around and poison the local water supply before going home.
@@Mankorra_Gomorrah UN peace keeping funding doesn't add any substantial income stream to the country. Peace keeping is undertaken in charity manners till this date, there is no scope for revenue generation, at least for the countries currently involved with sending troops for UN peace missions. For example an average American earns 50,000+ dollars a month, that's the paper figure, in reality it will be higher, the population with such a productive workforce and income will never consider the puny income from the peace missions sustainable. peace missions fund may sustain day to day military funding or some government operations of under developed central African countries, but not for the countries which dream big. I don't think Argentina went that low. BTW greetings from Asia, may Argentina may prosper .
Its actually because past administrations legt the budget emptied, so if any country gets angry at argentina they could just walk there because they couldnt even pay for ammo, so no its not about repressing its about having something to not die instantly lol
I’m here to read the comments, I dont waste my time watching videos about Milei, because 99% are wrong, purposely or by mistake for not checking the facts. My TLDR is, Milei is the best president in the history of Argentina, he’s heading to become a “procer” as his achievements in such short time are unmatched in the history of the world. He is killing inflation from a 20-25% a month to 3.5% in record times. He achieved a fiscal surplus in his first month, and this only happened for 10 years in the last 120 years of Argentina’s history. He is our savior, and many people who were going to flee the country if he didn’t win, like me, now have hope on seeing our country rise.
You want to hear what you want to hear. You aren't looking at the facts. The man gives you optimism, but sadly optimism doesn't feed people or put money in their pockets.
Absolutely breathtaking that this video claims that lower inflation has not happened, despite even displaying the MoM inflation chart that unambiguously demonstrates that this plank of Milei's plan has been a huge success.
As an Argentinian, people in the comments are right! Instead of electing Milei, we should have reelected the Peronists, and we should have opened a new ministry to fix the ministry of economy 💪💪💪 we should have followed Venezuelas path! They are doing very well I hear, no idea why thousands of Venezuelans still choose to live in Argentina.
You're right brother, also Massa said that he was gonna create a digital peso, so he could ad more money to the economy by just typing some numbers in is computer, the inflation could have front 250% to 5.000% (a peronist said that bigger is better) he also said that was important to "regulate social media" and he was right, we currently has to much free speech.
@@fazshura yess!! My wet dream is Massa being supreme leader of Argentina. I wish he had won so the government would ban tweeter, just like they did in Brazil!! One step closer to my even wetter dream of being like Nicaragua and Belarus
@@KhaokiMexico is headed for a debt catastrophe in 15 years because their socialists gave people "free" stuff paid for by deficit spending. But when it inevitably happens any faction except socialists will be blamed because "things were so much better under them." Socialist governments are companies and their shareholders are the people. Who cares about long term sustainable growth? We need results now now now.
He released all that on each Province with no funds for them, maybe at the end of his term maybe 5 provinces would be liveable and the rest new desert zones with very little population.
He wants to join NATO it seems, and the minimum for that is 2% of gdp. Also Argentinians think it's a sensible move as the military was actually dismantled and never recovered.
@@blakepollock8074 This is Milei bs propaganda, everyone knows NATO will never accept a member that claims territory of one of the 5 most important members (Not to mention it's not SATO...). He wants military support because that does wonders for latin politicians, that's how Evo Morales stayed in power for so long.
@hmttd2272 your a classic Argentinian, your expecting him to give in? Carry on destroying the country and print more money so you can all get your handouts on the IMF expense? He's been in 6 months, he made it clear expect things to get worse before they get better. Argentinians are directly responsible for allowing their politicians to be so irresponsible and allowing their political class to bribe them with subsidies and cheap government money all these decades
There is literally, no way that anyone with no amount of plannets align that could solve this problem without hurting the citenzenship. Is like having a drug addict and you try to stop him consuming drugs, at the beggining it will be painful, stressful and horrible, but is for the best
@@martin-dw thats the retarded answer that a portion of our country repeats, milei promised that the consecuencies wouldnt be for the private sector. The handouts to people who dont work are bigger than before, you got scammed, sorry tho break it to you
@@hmttd2272 Milei is implementing radical measures, yes, but we were always screwed. Or you prefer to forget the past administration with uncontrollable inflation, depreciation of the currency, poverty that is not very different from today’s and worse knowing their solutions were printing more money and price controls that did nothing?
What do you mean run out of steam? The Economy has been crashing since he took over. The price index jumped 100 points (from 100 something to 200 something) in the first 3 months of his tenure.
The economy has been crashing since the last 13 years. And the high inflation of the first 3 months was because the moronic guy that was the economy minister of the last goverment (and presidential candidate) printed pornogrphic amounts of money to try to win the elections. Not even talking about 13 years of price controls.
@ no he’s not .. that Milton Friedman crap doesn’t work in the real world…just like libertarianism and communism don’t work …. They’re too susceptible to corruption and there aren’t enough controls in such large systems … obviously something needed to be done in Argentina but these draconian moves are going to lead to a disaster….
To us Neoliberals, the poor will be better off in the long run through investments into bussinesses than just funneling money into the poor's pockets now.
@@foundationgamer9771 - will that happen before or after they die of starvation or treatable diseases due to the defunding of the health system? Asking for an Argentinian friend
@@foundationgamer9771you take away the impoverished peoples’ income, you shrink demand and weaken the economy. What neoliberals do not understand is how expensive being poor actually is. Debt is more expensive, subsistence grocery buying is more expensive, and the nickel and dimes that should go into bettering their lives are eaten by arbitrary fees from businesses that always want more. Neoliberalism has opened the door to corporate oligopolies and oligarchical political control, hence why there has been a wave of political extremes winning seats of power where it was previously impossible. Separate ideology from economics, and divest your identity from your politics and it will be more obvious.
Every "anarcho-capitalist" or right wing "libertarian" who ever gets power loves to "kill the state" when it comes to stuff like healthcare, education, old age care/pensions, research, environmental protections. But when it comes to highways, cops, and the military they always seem to have a change of heart. They dont actually hate the state, they just dont want competition for working class people's money. Theyre fine weilding the state like a club against those they prey upon.
Because they can't even afford it , they will reinvest in it once they can get their economy working. The main problem that would bring Argentina EVEN MORE DOWN was the lack of military, and the thing was that investing in military was needed to avoid another crisis or even a civil war. Which would bring the economy even more down.
There are many easy misconceptions. For instance, the “devaluation” is not about exporting more. There’s the actual price of the peso and the official rate which was set by previous governments. “Devaluation” of the official rate is just about eliminating smoothly the controlled price of the peso. Also, the regularization of undisclosed savings is not about dollarizing, that’s not the way you do it (and it’s not certain that it is still the plan), it’s just a way of fueling up economic activity. Etc
not spending on the military when multiple violent threats are coming our way doesn't sound like a good idea... Maduro's Venezuela, Ortega's Nicaragua, Lula's Brazil, Evo's Bolivia , Castillo's Peru, sound alarm bells all throughout the large and highly permeable boder... internationally, the department of security of the us told Milei's govt. that Russia and palestine and iran are eyeing argentina with bad intentions... recently, a BOMB EXPLODED that was intended for the Sociedad Rural ARgentina's president... not to mention the internal problem with the so called mapuche tribes...
@@martincatoniryan1638 I really don't think any of those countries have any intention of invading Argentina or even enacting a blockade. I live in Brazil and here people mostly don't care about Argentine no nowadays. After making my original comment I came to know Argentina's military is in very bad shape and so some increase in spending was needed. But I don't think it was needed now. Argentina just needs to pay its debt, lower its taxes, etc.
You forget that Argentina's border are more open that a prostitute's legs with black friday discont. And the goverment didn't invest in defense since 1990. You need a defender force. Not only to fight a foreing invasión, but to fight drug and people traffic.
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CORRECTION: At 6:30, we (embarrassingly) claim that a 4% monthly inflation rate translates to an annual inflation rate of 160%. This is incorrect - it actually translates to an annual rate of 60% (we forgot to subtract 1 when we did the maths). Apologies for this sloppy error, and we hope you nonetheless enjoyed the video!
lock in bruh
just like legacy media spreading fake news
a 160% annual inflation rate would be quite "normal" here though, anyway.
so embarrassing....
You’re a far left rag
4% monthly inflation is 60% yearly inflation, not 160%.
Need more likes under this post. TLDR keep making embarrassing mistakes from video to video. Some people may notice, but majority will be misled
@@Zenzen-jw9rryeah, they really need to work on their proof reading. They seem to get at least one number (if not multiple) wrong in every video.
@@ArnabSaha-pm8id No, he is right. The exponentiation of 4% ends up with 60% over the course of a year. That's 4% on the month, and then 4% on the increased prices for the next month, etc. So it takes the new bases into account. If he didn't take the new base into account the rate would be 12*4% or 48%. The 60% includes the compounding.
@@ArnabSaha-pm8id That's incorrect. If I would keep it same, it would be 48% (12 * 4). You can google this, just type in "1,04^12"
Still far to high anyway.
A 4% monthly inflation rate translates to a yearly inflation of 1.04^12 which is about 1.6, meaning 60% inflation, not 160% like you stated in the video! So Milei's target of 18% YoY inflation actually isn't copletely unrealistic (but probably still way too optimistic)
Yeah that was a very glaring flaw for a channel that usually gets things right. Hopefully they'll correct it
@@luistbom "that usually gets things right" Don't know about 'usually'. I make it a habit of checking the comments sections for stuff like this in TLDR videos.
is not that crazy, it will mean like a 2-3% monthly inflation, core inflation is already travelling at that. Is pretty obvious that he will make it, his "0 emission" policies are being really agressive on that issue (there is still inflation because of subsidies cuts that means services prices increases and also interest rates cuts that means pesos deposits are not renewing their positions and goes back to the economy)
60 and 160 are the same, you just add on and multiply the other. Inflation is 60% meaning the valuer of the goods is 160% the ones of the previousyear
@@meretricioussimp7759 Take a deep breath and analyze you math, and re- listen to exact words said in video. You will get it right I hope.
good luck to everybody in argentina
Come try the new Argentian Exclusive at mcdonalds:
The McWeAreFucked! Now with extra healthcare cuts, corruption and deficits.
The elderly 70+ is being forced to work to pay for medications... they need more than good luck.
I'm Brazilian and I'm totally astonished how things are deteriorating there. I visited Argentine in 2022., the situation was bad then, but people had means to live... these people don't deserve to treated like dogs in the end of their lives now 😓
But we don't have more than good luck, we can't go back to printing money to solve problems from the present, if we do we are screwing future generations with more inflation. We need to fix decades of poor resource management and reduce this massive and inefficient state that costs crazy amounts of money that could go to the elderly, health, education and defense @@dltn42
Except Pessi
@@dltn42 Bullshit, there were no cuts in medication coverage
people outside of argentina talk about the cuts as if 60% of the population being below the poverty line wasn't a big thing
Left-wing policies have placed 60% of the population below the poverty line
Like if 60 percent of population wanst in poverty already
@@facumod1932 20% before Macri came to presidency, 40% before Milei came to presidency, graphics and statistics exist lil bro, i recommend you check them out before opening your mouth
@@elpanchomayonesa8069 Sooo literally the last goverment aumented it 40 percent yet ypu complain about it growing 20%? And even while obviously poverty scales so if it was 40 before he came in obviously nexts months it would keep increasing?!
@@elpanchomayonesa8069 "b-but muh graphics" tell me you're new to politics without telling me you're new to politics
It would have been strange if Milei would have fixed Argentina in a few months when the country has been struggling for decades. Only time will tell if Milei can fix the country
Fix it? He’s collapsing the economy, the poverty rates have skyrocketed since this puppet took office.
Well spending big on military while cutting everything else is a great way to worsen the situation
What if it will take years for the answer to be resounding "no", is everyone ready for that eventuality
@@Leosch633 DPRK Style "Songun" ideology
He can't, his whole ideology is about government not fixing anything. Argentina's problem is one of Geography, that why those that came before him was unable to fix it. Unless Milei can somehow move the land, don't see how he can change anything.
Yesterday I saw an article saying Milei was gaining traction, today he is out of steam. I feel like I’m seeing a modern telling of ‘The Little Engine that Could’ play out here but I can only hope for the people of Argentina that the ending is like the children’s tale.
To reimagine that metaphor, Milei is like the Engine that ran into a swampy Ditch
Because nobody knows what's happening but in my opinion the odds are that Argentina stays the same, just like in the past century.
No one will know if it'll work till like 3-6 years from now tbh
Just see the graphs for poverty. Millei has managed to make families that always had a home live in the streets.
All in the name of zeroing the national debt. Which he is far from doing.
Argentina can just default the debt. It can be self sufficient.
It is already working, Argentina was on track to be bankrupt by now if it weren’t for him.
Of course it will take more than a year to fix such a broken country but the progress is remarkable thus far
A 60% inflation rate is phenomenal considering inflation was hitting 211% in January of 2024.
most of that was Milei taking the power in early December 2023 and a week later touching up the relation between dollars and pesos y the Central Bank, getting a 50 % inflation in a month.
It was 211% because of Milei. It was much lower before that. It went from around 100% to 200% in 3 months because of the changes he introduced to the peso.
@@marinamunoz7117 No fue 25% la de diciembre?
@@zemm9003 the "unofficial", meaning the REAL inflation was much highier before Milei. What Milei did is that he made the REAL, inflation official so it was at least clear, how bad the situation really is. It was also mentioned in this video, you should watch it.
True, economy is about the long game however. Also makes this vid a bit useless. Reforms take years for it really takes off.
I hope the lives of the people of Argentina get better
They might once the wall street puppet is out of office, right now everything is just getting worse.
lol with a right winger in power? Dude made millions lose jobs overnight with his policies for short term metrics improvement which looks like isn’t even working anymore
based comment; the condescending flippancy in others' comments is unpleasant
It's getting much worse
Unfortunately it's not possible with El Loco in charge
Argentina definitely feels like an economic experiment rn. The results would be interesting.
Those experiments are important for humanity. To optimize any complex system (like political and financial system), people need to have a variety of systems, some of which should have large deviation from the current best system in order to escape the local minimum trap of the current best system.
This means over "bad" system like monarch, theocracy, and other authoritarian system in general should also exist as a minority of all current political systems. For instance, maybe theocracy is nearly the only way to avoid low birthrate... or maybe an absolute authoritarianism without the incentive of corruption, turns out to out perform democracy in the age of social media where the quality of popular opinion go into a spiral of negative feedback loops.
As an Argentinian I think it's a worth risk to take, we have one the largest countries in the world, full of natural resources and far from the main conflictive countries, however we gone from the best country in the world in 1.895 to now being one of the worse, we destroy 5 currency: peso moneda nacional, peso ley, peso argentino, australes and now peso. We had many presidents from all kinds of ideology and every single one has fuck up the economy. I think that's why a lot of people are enduring this very hard times without complaining, if the crazy man with two master's degrees in economy can't fix the country then we are doom to fail forever.
I'm Argentinian. This administration is brutal. Just pure hatred of the poor, the elderly and the working class. This guy will be ejected soon.
@@stephanusghibellino dear leftards: no matter how much you repeat that Milei hates woman, old peolple, the poor and children, no one is going to believe your lies. Also, since Milei took office you have been saying that "Milei is leaving in December, then January, February, March and so on..." people are already laughing at you guys.
this experiment already happened. Same country, 1990. It didn't work. People just don't seem to care.
When public sector spending is a large chunk of GDP (37%), cutting the public sector spending is going to reduce GDP until the private sector can grow to step in. So, yes, GDP will fall.
Private sector investment tends to follow Public sector investment though. The Private sector likes to see that the state has confidence in the economy before it significantly invests itself.
"private sector can grow to step in" lmao Except it never happens
Matt-ou7tu Talking economics with libertarians is like talking physiscs with chimps, they just don’t get it.
More than half of Argentine government spending is for pensions and government job salaries and benefits so it does make sense to drastically reduce them so that the private sector employment will flourish.
@@juancarlosalonso5664 exactly
It's sad how difficult things have become in the present generation. I was wondering how to utilise some money I had. I used some of it for e-commerce business, but that sank. I'm thinking of how to use what's left to invest, but I don't really know which way to go.
It's a good idea to seek advice at the moment, unless you're an expert yourself. As someone who runs a service business and sells products on eBay, I can tell you that the economy is struggling and many people are struggling financially.
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How can I reach this advisers of yours? because I'm seeking for a more effective investment approach on my savings?
'Sharon Ann Meny' is the licensed advisor I use. Just research the name. You’d find necessary details to work with a correspondence to set up an appointment
Thank you for the recommendation. I'll send her an email, and I hope I'm able to reach her.
in a country with high debt and high inflation, things were always going to get worse before they got better.
This Shouldn't be news for anyone.
@@andrecruz1965 populists and peronists are too dumb for that
Except with a libertarian clown on top things will never get better. He'll just grab what he can and then skedaddle.
But that's the situation for years now, so the getting better part could also been now and not later
@@tomlxyz shit logic, he hasnt been in office for 1 year
Get worse? The guy is collapsing the economy, Argentina will be a failed state by the time this wall street puppet leave a office.
I just hope the people of argentina eventually do get a better country
With this guy? Impossible.
@@stephanusghibellino Javier Milei lowered inflation from 25% to 4%, took negative dollar reserves and increased them (recently he spent part of them but it was to pay debt that HE DID NOT TAKE, it comes from the past administration), began to cut taxes (and not necessarily for the rich) and deregulate hyper-regulated sectors in the economy. All this in 8 months of government in which the opposition has directly sabotaged everything he has proposed.
Honestly, either you are not informed because coincidentally they always come up with bad numbers or make horrible mistakes whenever they talk about him (check the pinned comment of this video and the others in which they talk about him), or you have a problem with his ideology or with him himself.
Explain to me: What moves you to say that he has not done anything?
@@stephanusghibellino Y que queres capo, mejorar con el kirchnerismo que nos dejó un país destruido con 50% pobres, jubilaciones de 80 dolares dolar de 60 a 1200 en los últimos 4 años, sin contar que aumentaron la deuda pública en 120 mil millones de dólares?
Sure, when Milei and his ilk get fired.
It won't happen unless the civil service is healthy and delivering as promised instead of being a tool for the rich.
"It is not clear why he is increasing the spending in the military". Wait until the next Argentinian election and you will understand why.
Thats what I'm thinking. "Security" often translates to "comfort and protection of those in control".
Watch, all the private business that may move in to fill new vaccuums will likely have some small tie back to his pocket or the pockets of those friendly to him. Thats how this shit always goes. What he is doing is going beyond "trimmimg the fat" he's cutting the social safety net to the bone and then throwing it to the dogs.
exactly. just wait until he loses and don't recognize the result and claim fraud just like trump and bolsonaro. in fact, before loosing he'll already start to cast doubt in the electoral system. for trump the fake problem was the mail paper votes, for bolsonaro, it was the eletronic voting machines. let's see what milei's fake reason is gonna be. in the us, the army didn't play along but trump attempted a coup in january 6th. in brazil, the armed forces were divides and on the fence and bolsonaro attempted a coup in january 8th. plus, there's always the path of changing the electoral system for him to keep getting reelected, like orban, erdogan and maduro. they all need the army at their side. or at least with their pockets full and not opposing them
@@lazyboy300Bolsonaro never claimed the election was stolen thoughbeit
@@lazyboy300Neither Trump or Bolsonaro were directly responsible for those riots. They were not even serious coup attempts really
The reporter didnt put a lot of effort in explaining. We are looking to go to war, that was never the tradition in Argentine foreign policy. The Falklands War was a unique political move in that sense by an Argentine government, which I remind you was the last attempt to keep a nationalist military dictatorship in power.
What Milei seeks is to recompose and rearm the Argentine Armed Forces that were dismantled after the return of democracy, our military did not have bullets to train, we did not have active fighter planes, our prefecture could not take action on illegal fishing in our sea , the border has become a sieve for drugs. On the other hand, it is seeking to be an external ally of NATO, which is why it increased the national budget by 2.1%, just as NATO asks of all its members. Don't take us Argentines for fools, we never seek war, we are a pacifist people.
Hi, argentinian here. I've seen a lot of comments talking about how "this proves how free market and shiet doesn't work" and things alike, but I haven't seen anyone talking about real solutions, so could you, dear foreigners who just watched a video explain to me your plans to save Argentina? The more civil the discussion, the better.
La mayoría son europeos acostumbrados con sus altos niveles de vida (o estadunidenses que quieren copiar a los europeos), creen que son los mejores del mundo y que cualquier cosa que no sea intentar copiar a su Estado de bienestar va a resultar en un desastre. No se dan cuenta de que estan a camino de tornarse países de tercer mundo y que Argentina está implementando las políticas que la hicieron el país más rico del mundo antes de Yrigoyen y Perón.
The free market does work, its just not overnight. Argentina has decades of malinvestment and debt to sort out. This is going to take years to sort out. Whilst im not a fan of milie his economic policies arent too bad
Argentina is not gonna get better until you effectively fight corruption
What Milei is doing works but it takes a lot of time to see the benefit for now is pure pain.
Probably not have a bad haircut and trash around acting gangster when you're trying to court foreign investment
Sure, cut health budgets and quadruple military spending on a continent that has had more military coups than actual wars. The only wars since WW2 being a short one between Ecuador and Peru in 1995 and a war between Argentina and the UK over the Falkland Islands in 1982.
Sure Argentina is abundant in natural resources and so may be unable to go the Costa Rica route, but surely the status quo is sufficient in the current geopolitical climate.
You think we got rich by spending on health care, pensions and welfare benefits?
@@JSK010 no, but the spending helps to keep the masses docile and not in the mood for revolution
@weiserwolf580 thats why u increase the military budget
@@weiserwolf580 we got rich first, created a welfare state after.
@@JSK010 in general i would say yes. All of those programmes provide more value to their economy than the military would. Im sure spending on health is a net positive investment for most countries. Pensions were paid into by the recipients and welfare at least attempts to keep people out of poverty and gets spent bavk into the economy.0
When they buy new military equipment thay is not produced there that is just money leaving the country that buys equipment that sits on military bases.
We good. No worries. (I'm from and live in Argentina)
Cutting budgets to school and healthcare while increasing military budget? The writings on the wall with this one
Teachers and nurses have never taken to the street with their machine guns and send an Argentinian President packing...
@@uweinhamburg They should...
@@uweinhamburg: sounds like a new idea 💡 .
@@ProfessorFickle Well, i'm sure many others did have the same idea already 🤣🤣
Why government should pay for education and healthcare? The function of a nation administration is to provide Justice and Safety. No more.
If you like socialdemocrat systems you'll go broke in two or three generations.
And that's exactly what Argentina did in the last century.
Read from opposite sources and learn.
Milei: I am a libetarian and anarchist.
Also Milei: lets quadrouple military spending.
Then you clearly don’t know Milei in depth and just stay with the titles. Either know about Argentina’s state before him.
Countries need protecting, too.
Don't forget that the country experienced two major terrorist attacks (AMIA and Israeli embassy), there is an insurrgent , radicalized and violent group of so called Mapuche tribes that carry out attacks and sets fires in some places of Patagonia (and in some places in Chile, too) , the islamic republic of Iran is suspected of assassinating an important federal prosecutor in his apartment in Buenos Aires, there is also a big drug and criminal gang problem in Santa Fe Province, there is a large border in the north and north east that is used for smuggling purposes, drugs, crime , etc... and lots of other international and national problems and other stuff that would require military power or intervention.
Milei is an ardent supporter of Zelenski and Kiev and russia has ties to former corrupt politicians like Alberto Fernández and Cristina Fernández de Kirchner. There's been a large influx of russians settleing in Argentina, some could be spies, agitators or worse. Our military had been definanced for decades , using old equipment that would not work or fare well against the threats.
Also, there is the enormous Mar Argentino that has been depredated constantly by other countries, China is in that bag, as well . I seem to remember warning shots fired at some chinese boats and 1 that was sunk or boarded by the maritime police here...
In addition, Milei is an enemy of Venezuelan ultra corrupt Nicolás Maduro. the Castro regime, ortega , etc. They could all disrupt life in Argentina at any time. Argentina needs protecting, is a big country in terms of landmass (it makes the top ten, if am not mistaken) and quite vulnerable and old, antique stuff in the military and intelligence agencies...
Milei had a spat with spain's Pedro Sánchez, he could finance crime here out of spite, too. As he was publicly and globally shamed...
@@FloweryLilium or Libertarianism
@@FloweryLilium yeah true I just like to shit post.
I also just have big dislike for people who claim to be pro small state, cause they cut things like education social funding and taxes, while increasing police and military funding.
@@SchnitzelfoxArgentina just doesn't have the money for anything that isn't the bare minimum to continue existing, hence the military and police still being required spending, especially with Venezuela trying to start a war in the continent
A small state isn't no state either
Milei funding the army is a pretty obvious "please don't overthrow me" move.
It's Latin America... ofc he has to worry about that.
Even if the army wanted to... They do not have the strengh to make a coup
@@SneedSeeding Luis Acre was almost overthrown until the people of Bolivia came out and supported him and the military backed down. The leaders of the attempt were immediately arrested and revoked of their titles
@@thatweatherman4411 true but that's an exception, generally military coups are very dangerous even when they fail.
@@cageybee7221 cause usually I’ve seen what happens if the people stand up to them the military immediately turns against their own people and guns them down
I'm no economist, but I know GDP measures both private sector activity and government spending. What Milei needs is not just government spending cuts, but also increases in private sector activity to offset decreases in GDP because of government spending cuts. So there needs to be investment by the private sector, especially from foreign companies, to help grow Argentina's economy, which is what I think Milei is going for.
Private sector is shrinking under Milei. Most jobs lost are in the private sector. We explain this many times. If you cut public expenditure, people will have less money and buy less wich will provoke the shrinking of the private sector. Specially in a country like Argentina where most of the people consume is made localy.
Exactly, I'm not against budget cuts but if the Conservative government in the UK has taught us anything it's that without PROPER private sector investment those cuts are useless
@@percelomalsdathat's why he is incentivising foreign investment in markets that focus on exports.
@@percelomalsdaSo, what you are saying is that Argentina is now trapped in a statist hell which can never be escaped. Unless the government prints money to give to consumers, the people will simply go without?
Personally, I’d go get a job rather than starve, but I guess Argentinians prefer to go on hunger strikes?
@@halohunter111 And he is falling spectacularly. Even his personal argentinian businessman friends prefer to invest in Lula's Brasil rather than Argentina. Who will want to invest in a country where people buy less every day?
Austerity increases. I don't like it but it can be reasonable. Austerity with military spending. That looks far more sinister to me.
true, the military was mostly used for nefarious purposes in Argentina.
Leftards definanced security forces for long thirty years. Soldiers had no ammo.
It’s down to 2.7% as of today
Don't forget to mention it's a monthly inflation. Still quite a high number but also a great improvement in comparison to the past years.
He is doing good things for Argentina and people should be hopeful and get behind him. The alternative is so much worse.
if inflation stabilizes, it can be dealt with. If it continues to climb, that's a killer. It will be interesting to see if he can pull it off. Ripping the bandage off can be hard.
@@bwhog congress peronists are sabotaging him because they want the economy to fall, so they can hope to get back in power
Inflation is going down
If no one is eating, inflation will surely go down
@@matheusd.rodrigues429 if they're going into massive pain, they'll need to set up a public food bank so the people don't starve.
@@matheusd.rodrigues429do the millions in Brazilian favelas also starve? How is poverty in your country any different to poverty in Argentina?
For Argentina's case, pumping defense spending isn't the way to increase defense capability in the foreseeable future. There's hardly anything to work with. 2% of a measly GDP won't get you any notable and results altering capabilities above the currently abysmal 0.5%.
Better to supercharge the economic recovery first. Then there'll be cash around to invest into what's needed, civil and military.
he said in a span of 8 years
Military spending is really negligible compared to the numbers that really matter. And you just cannot have a so big a country without a credible deterrent.
@@myBestWishes677
You can, Argentina has proven it in the last two decades... Their military has been a joke for at least that long, and no one has invaded them 🤣
To be fair, I have no idea why milei is considered a good economist. Nothing from his performance so far, let alone his moronic discourses before teh elections, point to good ideas or methods. The only thing he has done more or less ok is dealign with itnerest rates but the way hes done it is no different than before, only faster and he is running out of steam
@@SBVCP you just do not understand Argentina.
i believe commenting on milei goverment in a day to day, month to month or even year to year basis is not helpful.
i personally believe milei actually has a 4 year (minimum) plan and the results of milei could only be seen after his administration is over. if it wanted short term gains he would not make anything hes doing right now.
Agree 100%. Even four years is quite short actually.
Economy is my hobby and I find it fascinating to see exactly what I expect in real time.
- the unoficial (thus real) inflation rate being made official, resulting in worse looking numbers, but at least it's number shat reflect reality
- leftist autistic screeching that Milei is a monster and is preventing the rise of the ultimate global socialism so "great" for everybody
- cutting the money supply from the government bank with residual inflation still coming out from the institution and investment sector for YEARS before the consumer sector inflation of prices will stop rising
- drop in GDP because the government stopped doing stuff. This creates an economic vacuum that will gradualy be filled by private companies. Without government subsidies this will take decades, but will result in a healthy and wealthy economy
- next in line are the assasination attempts. I guarantee you that we will see a LOT of assasination attempts on Milei encouraged by the Russian, Chineese and European propaganda.
- if assasination attempts and propagandizinh the argentinian people will be unsuccesfull, we will see a small rise in GDP every upcoming year. Few years after that, argentinian people will be a little bit wealthier every year. It will be a looong and rough road.
Lol, you know what, I will post shis also as a separate post
@@LubosMudrak how old are you
@@ariana9941 old enough 😝
@@LubosMudrak not an answer
Why would Argentina need to x4 its military budget? Who does it need to defend against? Aliens?
@@pebblepod30 Because our past administrations (a lot) payed 0 attention to the military budget and in military terms we were EMPTIED. That’s the reason.
argentina has 0 active submarines, the meko 360 and 140 are the same as they were in the 80s, the helicopters are from the 50s and so on.
argentina the 8 largest country in the world spends 0.46% of GDP on military, they are destroyed to the point that they cant protect the country.
I believe there's some islands that make for a convenient distraction 😂
Salford.
Milei believes in aliens, so..
We had austerity for 14 years in the UK. No nothing is better. The economy isn't stronger. Its weaker. The highest period of sustained growth was in the 60s when we employed Keynesian economics. Why? Because when ordinary people have money in their pockets they spend it
This is the hard truth that libertarians refuse to accept. Libertarianism has been so thoroughly discredited that it's amazing that people still hold those views.
@@aaronsmith1474 it's basically communism for right wingers. A stupid idea that can sound good when you don't really think about it. Failed a thousand times, but maybe this time it might work.
@@aaronsmith1474this just isn’t true saving leads to investment which leads to long term growth this sort of environment creates a setting for frictionless capital investment not the opposite
the problem with people is not learning enough about situations and then making comments with nothing backing it. UK and Argentina are vastly different. I'm Portuguese, if we hadn't had austerity we would've taken greeces' time to recover. Plus you, being from the UK, don't know what it is to live in a country that only cares about short term politics. In portugal we only leave our houses at 33 y.o. because the socialists and communists spent all the money possible to have the elderly on their payroll. TAXES SO HIGH that makes Romanians' salary look like rich people over here. NO ONE wants to suffer short term for a better life in the future and thats why more than 90% of the wealth is owned by 40+ age group, they own the houses, they have their life put together and we the young pay taxes so they can maintain their lifestyle. A house here costs 14 TIMES my annual salary as a Software Engineer (I DONT EVEN LIVE IN LISBON, where the price are double what it is in my city) in london, the most expensive city of the UK, if I had the average salary I'd buy a house with only 10 annual salaries. You talk from a place of privilege
Interesting that the Peronists deliver nothing for decades but someone new is expected to fix everything within 6 months.
I noticed this too, it's fascinating! When socialists get 40 years of chances it's still "oh wow things are a mess, thank God for the socialist policy though because just think how bad it would be if we didn't have that to help us given how bad things are!" but with a libertarian leader they are blamed for all the problems and it's declared their policies are a failure after literally just a few months of it not fixing everything. This just goes to show the power of what a policy says on the tin. If a "child poverty reduction policy" does nothing to reduce child poverty it will still get A LOT of lee way just because it CLAIMS to reduce it.
The inverse is also true, a policy of cutting programs in a way that is on paper indifferent to the problems they were meant to solve is lambasted for being callous and cruel even if the data shows the country is having dismal outcomes in the area the program being cut ostensibly fixes. I can see why this makes sense, why would you repeal the thing that says it fixes the problem you want solved? It makes sense people are fooled: convincing people of the value of freedom over intervention / Peronism can be counterintuitive, it's hard to fight against marketing that simply claims it will solve everything, even when you have data to show it's not helping and hasn't been for decades.
I mean he was the one who made bold promises to fix everything and secondly no one is expecting a miracle or denying the problems the economy had beforehand. I'm an economist for a living and I don't really think it was necessary to increase the poverty rate 15% to solve this problem.
The problem isnt that people want him to fix the economy in a snap but he obliterated it in a snap 20% of the industry gone over 57% of the population on the povertry line now from 40% 2 years ago so yeah... Milei comes butfuck the economy and then you say "well its beem only 6 months" yea imagine the damage he will do in 4 years
The Peronists didn't want an explosion in real poverty, which is exactly what has happened
We who are opposed to him, did not expect him to solve anything, we are only waiting for him to fail and give up.
The people who was expecting miracles was his followers, because he himself had promised miracles.
It's usually the policy that stimulates the economy. The budget alone cannot move the economy without a favorable policy. If the business environment is good, business will thrive, and tax collection also increase.
Taxes for what? This becoming a Libertarian society. By cutting taxes, the people get to keep their income to invest into businesses once the gross subsidies vanish from the market since prices have been fixed for decades. Stuff like this could take years. His goal is to return the government to its basic principles, protecting human rights and property. Taxes would only fund the necessary functions of governance. I.e. congress. Police/fire, departments, Courts so on and so on.
what income? 😁
Unless the government promises not to collect any taxes. Then it gets nothing.
He will make good business ecosystem by deregulation and stability
The fact that's being obscured by thos video is that most of the deficit in the gdp is due to cut in public spending which was massive in argentina prior to milei, also if you look into the private sector a lot of the construction and real state industry is showing sharp signs of growth
Give Milei a chance. There are many factors outside his control. It will be amazing if he can pull it off and I doubt any of his retractors are going to admit they were wrong if he does.
Cutting education and healthcare budgets while massively increasing military spending? Really shows where this guy’s priorities are…
Didnt he say he wants the falkands back?
@@sephoramandondo2548 nah, he is a declared Thatcher/Raegan fanatic, and a pro pseudo jew Israel fanatic too. No way he is going against the boots he loves to lick.
Argentina barely spends on the military any increase would be big.
They have been spending lower than the maintenance cost and most vehicles don't work
@@Projolo your opinion is not wrong. But like Atze says, when your family is hungry you don't buy a new Colt.
@@ScudForEver what if they are stealing your food like they are doing to Argentina that can't defend their maritime borders?
You can meet with Milei if you promise him an award.
Just institutions that fight for freedom. Why are you against freedom? Do you support Maduro ?
😮😂
@@ProfessorFickle Depends on the institution. They are all from the private sector. No politics awarding other politics
Cuts to spending when you have nothing to spend is anything but "ambitious".
Why do you think that???
@@JokeShinet Let's say you have 100 dollars and you want to spend 300 dollars, if you cut your spending then you went end up in debt. It's not ambitious, it's just the sensible thing to do. When you have 300 dollars then you can spend that, but not before.
@@gramma677 makes sense
why does Milei want a much stronger army? Because he will need their support to stay in power for the next 20 or 30 years.
Nah, i think its because he wants Argentina to be another global superpower. I believe he said he wants to join NATO
Yeah not super Libertarian of him but then again you live in South America.
@@melkormorgothbauglir.4848 look what they almost did to the President of Bolivia
@@thatweatherman4411 And Bolivia one of the more stable countries in South America its not like Columbia or nearly as bad as the favelas.
Because our air force most lethal plane is a Cesna, our navy biggest ship is a corvette and the army tanks can't beat a ww2 t-34.
Argentina didn't expend a dime in defense since 1990.
This is basically whoring the country away. You need real economy not just some financial manipulation. And Argentina is very far away from major markets.
They realy expected that guy to save the complete chaos of an economy and state in half a year ?
I hope it works out, but he changed it so he now owns it, good or bad. They do the same thing to US presidents a week after they’re elected.
It is working out.
Slowly.
Major banks give loans so that ppl can own houses. That happens in a variety of countries. It didnot happen in argentina for decades.
The stock market is in somewhat good shape, security and safety is improving a bit, corrupt politicians are finally getting investigatedby justice, etc.
He promised more investment from the private sector but it will take pain to get their, the pain has delivered for the Argentina people and investors are losing faith if his plan would aspire investment we would see this the effects (better conditions) would show later but we don't even see investments by the private sector
@@martincatoniryan1638i don't think anyone is buying houses right now
No, they just want to shit on him for not fixing everything in 73 seconds out of hypocrisy and their inability to accept electoral defeats, this isn't the first time that this happens
“Revive” implies that it was alive to begin with... Argentina hasn’t had a stable economy since 1930.
Miliei sounds like Icraus, but without the wings
But he has crazy hair instead of wings 🪽
When does austerity ever work? Asking for David Cameron.
It works just fine for the rich.
Austerity appears to work in the short term but in the long term it just destroys everything but when you are in a Democracy it doesn't matter because by the time everything crashes down it's another administration's problem.
Austerity works, the problem with austerity is when you don't back it up with tax cuts. The problem with the UK was that its beautiful government said: I'll stop funding healthcare and that's it, which obviously left it underfunded because if you don't back it up with deregulation/tax cuts so that the private sector absorbs that portion that you stopped funding, then it will be a disaster.
@@boink800 Tell that to the Argentine people that saw their public sector growing for the past years and only them getting rich.
@@segiraldovi the "private sector" won't step up without heavy government subsidies, and then it often gives the same or even worse service at 15x the price, some things just don't benefit from being privatised.
There is a reason that we don’t use monthly data (and it’s 60% not 160%). It often is heavily revised and can drive policy based on few datapoints. Stable inflation is far better than volatile inflation because contracting parties can better anticipate future gains. That is singularly needed for large scale investments.
Run out of steam? He's still full of hot air.
A lot of it😂
Like a Steam Engine that ran dry and seconds from a molten explosion 💥
He's done more to run a normal economy in less than a year than the Peronists have in 10
It’s almost as though a self-described “anarcho-capitalist” is the solution to all of Argentinas woes…
Yeah instead of a brain he has that in his head lol
A government whose stated purpose is not to solve anything with the use of public resources and who expects private capital to solve everything. Brilliant! Good luck with that.
No the gov is not spending so much and thus lowering pressure on companies that actually pay the taxes.
Companies grow, the number of jobs and taxes increases and the rest will follow
@@MChagall reality says otherwise, companies are closing and poverty skyrocketing
You're a commie. Your opinion is invalid
Yeah, lets keep printing fake money and solve everyone s problems lol😂 commie detected
And your solution is to increase the government spending amd thus force the companies to pay mpre taxes for that money to come?
Because obviously taxes must be increased to increase government spending and government spending must be reduced in order to cut taxes.
And businesses need smaller taxes in order to be able to grow to produce and sell more and hire people.
This is how the private sector works. Ever considered that you don't need to control everything and everyone to run the country?
The rising interest rate can surely control inflation, but won't prevent erosion of the eroding purchasing power of the US dollar. I have learnt my lesson this time. The banks can't be making money off my money, while inflation eats into it. I have set aside 650k to invest in the stock market now, since that keeps up with inflation, but I don't know how to get started.
Financial consultants can help by recommending investments that outpace inflation, such as real estate or certain stocks. A client of mine followed this strategy and saw their savings grow by 15_% in just two years, effectively countering inflation.
That makes sense. Unlike us, you seem to have the market figured out. Who is your fiduciary?
Zachery M Demers is the licensed FA I work with, I can't speak much about him you should make a search with his name, you'd find the necessary details to schedule an appointment.
These are bots. Please don't fall for this
lol
Argentina is the country of novels, speeches, the easy solutions, but the reality presents different figures all the time.
That one peso bill hasn't been used for decades. Actually it is part of a previous currency also called "peso" (peso de curso legal) it would be more accurate to use a $1000 peso bill, because there is no $1 bill
As the great brazilian economist Maria da Conceição Tavares says "nobody eats GDP, they eat food". I wish strenght to my fellow neighbors
Food production would be counted under the Gross Domestic Product, so seems like a dumb thing to say. Makes sense why Brazil is so horribly poor.
Austerity for the poor is really popular with the rich.
No its not , the rich love monetary expansion, they control the means of production and a lot of assets, expansion means more profits and asset price inflation. What benefits both rich and poor is stability and low inflation . Dont be a loser , do what must be done, everyone will benefit in the end.
Inflation hurts poor most. They dont hold any assets which will show price hike.
We got shock therapy before GTA 6
Dead meme. Move on bro.
What are you talking about? The peso under Milei is incredibly EXPENSIVE. The real exchange rate is at a record low, so no chance of export recovery
Argentine agricultural exports are already growing.
@@marcv2648
Agriculture exports won't do any good for the country and economy either. caloric goods (food, fuel) are worth over the currency, income from the export with those will do more harm than any good.
So why pay tax if these guys cut services.
to make the rich even more rich, is not that the plan??
to pay the FMI
To pay off the states' debts
@lc2k116less services mean less money in the economy what means less jobs and tax income.
@@elijahjohnson1952 The 80's called. That didn't work 40 years ago why do you think it will magically work now?
a video about Milei... here come the smooth brain Elon fans infesting the comment section
You mean the most successful entrepeneur of the century? Are you a commie ?
Government economies that have their own currency don't really need to run on a surplus even if it is a plus if it does.
What they need to do is to improve the people's economies so they have better purchasing power, which will increase demand and, in turn, will increase investments to fill that demand. You don't do that by destroying the welfare state. Sure, it will lower wages and increase exports but will mostly help big corporations and not the people's economies.
Hi there Javier Milei did not remove the welfare program, he slashed incompetent and corrupt sectors of the public works programs
that were the states money for corruption and money laundering such as the note book scandal in which millions of dollars was funneled into
fake housing projects that were never built or the numerous soup kitchens that were created by the former Kirchnerist government that was meant
for the needy that didn't exist. When Javier Milei discovered what was going on he took action and launched criminal proceedings against
several of the corrupt kirchnerists/Peronists politicians this is why he has slashes some of these public sectors and reduced incompetent
staff to pave for a more transparent efficient Government!
You want the true inside story go to LA Nacion or Las Ves Jonathan Viale their Argentine news channels you can use the
youtube translator or id you understand Spanish then you will realise the true story for what it is!
Javier Milei is a blessing for Argentina and has the brains and balls to move Argentina into a new prosperous path!
"Things will get tougher before they get better" You cant expect to fix 100 years of wrongs in 9 months. WAKE UP
He is doing fine.
The problem is all traditional media was founded by goverment's institutional advertising and Milei cut this spending 😂
60% is better than what it was
No one ever claimed reforms would be easy or be immediate. It’s going to take years for an economy addicted to government stimulus to get back on track. Blame past politicians and bureaucrats for spending and reckless borrowing. It’s now time to pay the price of past poor public sector decisions to lay the foundations of a more prosperous future.
Yeah, they expect Argentina with years of corruption and socialism to become US in 2 years lol
Here in Brazil, monetary policy hawks are in despair because of inflation of 4% per year. The center of the target is 3% and the ceiling of the target is 4.5%. GDP is growing at about 3% per year. Things seem to be going very well here, and we have a center-left government. I think the problem is not ideology, but the Argentine mania of thinking that there are miracle solutions to economic problems every 4 years. They always go very radically in one direction and then undo everything, and this process is always very expensive, generates legal uncertainty and debt. If there were a minimum consensus, as there is in Brazil, Argentina might not be in such a bad situation.
i don't think you are correct.
Argentina didn't go to a very radically direction with every goverment. all of them went for the same direction, more goverment, more goverment agency, more goverment spending.
in 2000 was like 20% and in 2023 was like 40% of the total gdp. and thats only 20 years, argentina is going this direction for almost a century.
there's no consensus though. It's institutions. Lula is trying to implement a PAC 3 but to do that it needs to increase spending but it cant because of central bank's indenpendence, golden rule, Central bank's inability to finance treasury and etc...
@@martin-dw You've never studied Argentinian history then, in the 90s or even Macri's goverment were totally pro-market and in Menem's case reduced the state at it's minimum
@@mosaloquendo Menems first administration was KIINDA pro-market, specially taking in mind how was before, but TOTALLY is very a big statment.
and Macri was totally a social democrat, yeah he cut spending (42% from 47%) but only a bit and at the cost of getting a giant loan.
If Macri is "totally pro-market" What the fuck is Milei to you? the god of capitalism?
I think you are very at the left my friend and everything you see is far-right
@@martin-dw To Me, Milei is that he says he is, an anarcho-capitalist.
And how on earth is privatizing the national airline, water, electricity, gas, railways, ports, banks, the state oil company, and even the post office (!!!) is just kinda pro-market to you? I get that Macri didn't deregulate at Milei's pace but he left goverment on a 0,5% primary deficit.
To me my friend, your sympathy for Milei is making you biased, he's not the first capitalist president in 100 years and most of his ideas were tried before. You could argue that they were poorly implemented, but financial deregulation, privatization and austerity are not new to Argentina.
At 6:28, Jack refers to the year-on year inflation rate at %160 when I think it should be just %60
1.04^12 = 1.60
but it should be 1-(1.04^12) = 0.6
Yeah it's 160% of the base. But that would imply that 98% inflation is actually deflation (since 100% would be no change), which is how nobody in the world uses inflation. Not even their own other numbers (the 4%) works that way, so this is just a very sloppy mistake, particularly since it makes the numbers about 3x as bad as they are. 160% inflation would imply a +160% change, so 2.6x, rather than 1.6x. (but the real number is 1.6x)
@@jaspermooren5883 They made the mistake, check the pinned comment
@@segiraldovi Yes, that's what I said. That they made the mistake of saying the inflation is 160%, while they ment 160% of the base (so the new price is 160% of what it was, which means the price increased by 60%), which would be +60% inflation, or just 60% inflation, which is how everyone understands inflation.
For the time being Argentine people are suffering from punitive inflation regardless of Milei’s strenuous efforts.
still, his public image is somewhat good and inflation keeps going down, down , down.
I don't know bro, we are haveing the lowest inflation in years.
Yeah, it's a lot by a normal country standars. But its the first time in decades that the bich goes down, insted of up.
It's still very silly that there is not just *one* exchange rate for the dollar. That's still a horrible mess. The one and only exchange rate for the US dollar should be the free market rate, or the "blue" rate.
Los comunistas socialistas y demócratas jamás lo entenderá. La izquierda no sabe de economía
I come from the future. The peso is gaining value against the USD, monthly inflation is on the lower single digit range, cristina kirchner was condemned fater long years of trials, homicide rates in Rosario are down 60%, employment in the public sector is on a negative trend, spending is DOWN, 11 useless ministeries have been closed and the general sensation on my group of friends is that the country has a chance to be in the 1st world bracket in the next 30 years (after more than 110 years in a downtrend).
Argentina's gvt budget is running a surplus, at the cost of reducing public services. So, why does milei think i would now be more interested in investing/relocating production to argentina? If the gvt is spending less on the workforce, what, is he expecting me to pick up the tab in order to waive export rates? If i cant get workers due to illness or poor travel, i wont get exports..
Because you arent paying the taxes and tariffs to operate in Argentina lol
Litterally becoming cheaper to invest there
@@HOI4notsoproplayer the new tax measures get almost no taxes for foreign companies, but the costs for producing, transporting and delivering things in dollars is more expensive than in nearby countries, you could pay pennies for the workforce, but all else is astronomically expensive than in Paraguay, Brasil, or Chile.
@@marinamunoz7117 mostly because taxes on other things such as transportations are yet to be changed, its been only a few months after all but i can tell you brazil is far more expensive, mostly because we litterally have THREE transportation taxes, along with bilions of other taxes that i didint even think were possible to exist
Because if the inflation goes down, and with the economic libaration that Milei is promoting, you as a company can plan ahead.
Austerity is just a wonkier term for under-investing in the future (see: UK under the Tories). But finding the line between austerity vs. cutting waste/inefficiency/vanity-projects is hard.
Continuing to print inflation into the system is harder
It is crucial not to throw all kinds of austerity measures into one basket and compare them all with what Thatcher did. Greece had gone through about a decade of austerity prescribed by the EU and the IMF and are now on a very positive trajectory. Argentina has even more reasons to cut back on government spending, given their exorbitant public sector. So while austerity has often made a sudden crisis worse in an otherwise good economy, it is sometimes necessary in an economy where populist or corrupt governments wasted huge sums of money.
@@TheSandkastenverbot while thatchers austerity was harsh, government finance in the 90s compared to 1979 was night and day difference, it's the groundwork laid by thatcher that enabled to big spend under the Blair years
In this case it's actually necessary, Argentina has been spending way beyond its means for decades.
The austerity is UK is nth compared to many other countries
Besides many others are in far worse debt situation than the UK
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes!
ikr, increasing military spending they claim to be broke yet cutting education/healthcare; the very things that grow an economy.
And letting foreign corporations completely tax free free and completely free from environmental regulations.
It's not like most shit hole countries have companies dumping toxic chemicals into the soil, water and air.
yeah, hiperinflation from previous commie goverment. And Milei is solving the problem. Thanks
Facts until November: Inflation keep descending, now 10 times lower since he assumed power. Public image totally good. Every week he discovers another case of corruption. He is winning the war against human and drug trafficking. Argentina has raised 90 steps in economic freedom, the ONLY way to move out of poverty. Poverty started to descend. Economy equal to before he assumed.
Conclusion: TOTAL SUCCESS.
First world countries are struggling right now. Perhaps the worst time to take on all the issues with Argentina but perhaps Argentina would’ve not survived the coming recession otherwise.
Argentina is the perfect example of extreme incompetence.
Being a resource-rich country, it has no reason to be in economic trouble.
Resource rich is actually one of the main drivers for unstable goverments. If you can get money from other sources than the population itself as a government it is much easier to maintain a corrupt goverment (or even outright dictatorship). The vast majority of resource rich countries are poorly run. And those that aren't usually already were stable countries before they found the riches (such as Norway, and to a lesser extend, the USA). A stable democracy is actually very hard to get and even harder to maintain. It's kind of a miracle that quite a lot of countries have managed to do it at all. Argentina doesn't have a long tradition of a democracy (only since 1983).
I have no words for limiting the spending for education and healthcare... and to spend more on military... Its so stupid. He is selling the future.
I AGREE DO YOUR RESEARCH IT ALL COMMENCED WITH THE PERONISTS/KIRCHNERISTS
BEFORE THAT HAPPENED ARGENTINA WAS THE MOST PROSPEROUS AND ADVANCED NATION ON EARTH BY
THE TURN OF THE 20TH CENTURY!
THE PERONISTS HAD GOOD INTENTIONS AT THE BEGINNING WITH THE PUSH FOR INDUSTRIALIZED
GOODS AND SERVICES AND MANUFACTURING HOWEVER THEY BECAME TO OVER PROTECTIONIST WITH
SOME OF THEIR INDUSTRIES AND POLICIES WHICH HAD A GRADUAL EFFECT ON ARGENTINA'S ECONOMIC
OUTLOOK BUT THE BIGGEST NEGATIVE IMPACT WAS WHEN THE PERONISTS BEGAN TO PRINT MORE
MONEY ITS WHEN THE NIGHTMARE COMMENCED!
MILEI IS DESTINED TO FIX ARGENTINA'S LONG TERM CHAOS AND HE WILL THROUGH HIS BRAINS COURAGE
AND GOING AGAINST THE GRAIN IN ORDER TO ACHIEVE A NEW PROSPEROUS ARGENTINA!
VIVA LA LIBERTAD!🦁
@@jaspermooren5883 Mira esto explica un poco ! en 1990 Argentina saco la ley de Mineria que solo mantiene por 30 años regalias a un 3 % con dos minas entre las mas grande del mundo de oro !. 30 años ! lo que sacas no se controla ! o sea que si un pais extranjero esta obteniendo una tasa del 5 % en algun bono de eeuu esta pagando practicamente todo !!.. aparte de amortizar en el tiempo el capital ! y sigue pasando lo msimo ! Argentina es idiota ! ese es el problema ! Ahora pasa lo mismo ! todo regalado a años !! Somos de baja democracia ! Argentian tiene un problema que no piensa en ella !! y asi con las rutas comerciales etc etc ! si no existe un plan minimo de industrializar !! imposible somos idiotas !! nos guiamos en politcas y beneficios de otros !..
@@jaspermooren5883 They talk about Singapore having the advantage to not have any resources and so developed their economy in the free market without the temptation to government. Also natural resources don't make a country rich, it's manufacturing and free markets that develop a country. Look at all the African nations with lots of resources but no development. Making cars and phones and tv's from those resources is where the value is, not pulling stones out of the ground.
After seeing Al Jazeera show half the population living off struggling soup kitchens, I'd have to say say either, 'no it's not working', or 'yes, but at what cost...'
The last goverment in its final days started spending like crazy to see if they could win, now there was literally no other way, no one is lending mony to argentina and we are broke soo...
That’s really not true. Argentina is doing just like it always did. Last year, under the previous administration, the poverty rate was already around 50%. Fixing a country’s economy doesn’t automatically lift people out of poverty, specially not when the thing that was keeping people out of poverty was at the very same time destroying the economy. The previous government was making everyone poorer, just to make some people less poor in the short term. That’s actually not helpful, and it’s not addressing the real underlying issues that make people poor, it’s dirty populism.
Yes that half of population under poverty is what peronism had left in the country, they don"t appears spontanously they got empoverish by a system that just care about the interest of politicians, and they were who vote for milei.
That’s exactly the type of thinking that got Argentina in this mess. Pain is necessary.
Argentina was already in a slope down. Do you think Argentina out of all countries would scape the Covid pandemic economical crisis?, people are getting poorer globally so it is an obvious faith. The reason why they are like that is because their products are not good enough for foreign investors to invest or buy from it. The only thing that can solve that is Milei doing business with the Chinese for example to boost certain industries to help cut down the prices. After that, a short path towards economical development with other developed economies could help alleviate the issue long term while also modernizing their local industries and maybe formalizing the economy.
Milei brought the inflation rate down by 120% in one year. This is an economic miracle already.
No. its something logical with such strict policies... The problem it their long standing effects... Hay que dejar de convertir mamarrachos locales en figuras religiosas y empezar a usar la cabeza... Asï les va
TLDR is neither unbiased nor impartial because you guys obviously are looking at these libertarian policies through your progressive liberal lenses. You guys never were impartial. But I do thank you for covering Milei's policies, even though you have a distorted view of it looking through your liberal lenses.
A couple of notes:
Milei's name is pronounced "Me-lay", with an accent on the second syllable.
Also, more concerning than the raise in military spending is the one in the intelligence services, which have been historically opaque and used to persecute and spy on political opponents.
Also, his plan calls for transferring all educational and health-care expenditures to the provinces while at the same time asking them to cut their budgets by 60 billion dollars.. what could go wrong?
Spoilers : no.
A few will get richer and 10 years later people will be even more miserable because they ll have to pay these few to get access to basic necessities.
But luckily Massa had plans to fix the economy...... Right??????
Or you are a 1st world marshmellow socialist or voted for Massa (no middle point for you)
glad to see someone gets it
Exactly.
We can't predict the future so let's see what time has to say
We should've just set up a kickstarter to buy Argentina. It's a beautiful country.
Milei is no free market economist, he is an anarcho-capitalist. So what he is doing actually should not work, especially when combined with extreme austerity in the middle of a recession. But we also know no economy behaves like Argentina. So let's see how this experiment with the Argentinian people turns out.
it might fail, it might work. if it works, that'd be a sign for other defunct economies like south africa that change can work.
Economics are straight forward cuts will hurt GDP a lot.
New Zealand did this decade ago and flourished after it.
@@adamelghalmi9771 New Zealand did not have high inflation, dysfunctional institutions and it did not start with extreme austerity but with free market reforms. But also New Zealand benefitted from high commodity prices and wealthy immigrants. None of these factors apply to Argentina.
@@tobiwan001 argentina had a good bit of wealthy immigrants arriving from the early 40s to late 60s, but that was a select few individuals.
To anyone that might be interested, this government started on Dec. 2023 and the inflation since has been:
Dec. 25.5%
Jan. 20.6%
Feb. 13.2%
March 11%
April 8.8%
May 4.3%
June 4.6%
Jul. 4%
Aug. 4.2%
If it is assumed an inflation of 4.0% for the rest of the year means that the year-on-year Dec-Dec inflation is going to be 598% or the 2024 inflation is going to be 456%.
and the inflation from oct 23 and nov 23?
@@Xiquinhodasilva99
8.3 and 12.8, you can Google the year-on-year for 2023, let me know what you find.
So Milei lowered inflation to the lowest in the last 2 years, but you say inflation is triple of the last year with previous government that was 211%?
I think you messed up the numbers because with the data you sent the Dec-Dec inflation would be 175.17% and the 2024 inflation would be 128.03%.
@@Xiquinhodasilva99 you mean the period in what the market saw that Milei was the next President?
@@Max_Power_
Great! You got the numbers right, now I'll take what you just wrote:
With the data you sent the Dec-Dec inflation would be 175.17% and the 2024 inflation would be 128.03%
And that is the lowest inflation in the past two years?? Obviously you understand that 175.17>128.03, so what is the "achievement" of reaching a 4% monthly inflation when the year on year has even larger than of 2024?
Sure you have to assume a flat inflation rate of 4% for the rest of the year. I truly hope that's the case but, is that a realistic assessment?
Hey TLDR! Maybe u should put down the Imprint picture book and do some Brilliant courses on how to annualize inflation, eh?
I feel that this commentator speaks as if he would be speaking about an european country. He does not understand why Milei got elected, and thinks that Argentinians react to Milei as people would react in Spain!!! The report is somewhat missleading and the numbers mentioned are just plain wrong.
I, an argentinian, quite like the fact that you (a british channel) made more than one good quality video about our situation. It is because of our historic ties, which are not great, that I like you.
I can assure you that absolutely nobody in the UK gives a flying fart about the “historic ties” with Argentina. Nobody here thinks of you as an enemy, in much the same way that only around 1% of the US population would be able to identify Vietnam on an unlabelled map.
One possible reason for increasing military spending is to create a “Peace Keeper Force” a lot of small, economically struggling countries basically export their militaries for peacekeeping missions. Their troops get sent to some god forsaken war zone and the UN pays their homeland big bucks for its trouble. In a lot of cases the US will also support missions with free or cheaper gear and logistical support. He may be hoping that increasing the number of troops, improving equipment and training a bit and then sending them to the UN will pay for itself in the long run.
If this sounds familiar it’s because it is the latest evolution in a system that started with condotieri in the Middle Ages leading into the auxiliary system of the 17th century and now to the peace keeping militaries of today. Functionally little has changed but we’ve gone through great lengths to make it look like it changed a lot.
I think that buying outdated military junk from OTAN countries is a way to get in that scene and those contacts for that side of the world, something that was not possible before because we have the Malvinas occupied by an UK operation military base, and the way to get over that, is to give up our right on the Islands like Milei wants. I don't think that 40 years are enough to get over that war, maybe next generation would be friendly and ally with Uk, maybe not.
@@marinamunoz7117 totally off topic with literally no relevance to the conversation being had.
no nation can earn money out straight from sending peace troops. sending troops on other's soil is nasty business and drives the nation into troubles with multiple fronts. only scenario where sending in troops turns out to be profitable is protecting the strategic interests and strategic asset overseas, like US sending in troops in middle east to stabilize gasoline supply, china sending in troops to protect it's overseas ports, India sending in troops to install puppets on voiceless neighbours. these are the only instances in near past. UN peace force is another subject, it won't earn you anything. it will cost you instead. what you mentioned in your comment is just about how a mercenary operates., a state cannot run a mercenary.
BTW the actual reason for increasing the military spending is to feed the arms manufacturers from the north and to integrate the Argentine defence with the north, so the alliance will stay forever. Political, ideological coordination between the two nations won't last for ever, either one will drift away eventually. but a military coordination/integration/alliance will last forever. Countries which bought Soviet weapons still hanging out with Russia, that's how it works. Equipments needs to be upgraded, maintained, troops need to be trained and instructed to operate the equipments, the coordination keeps on going. that's what Milei is preparing the Argentina for, an long-lasting tie with USA.!
@@sk-dr8zu this just isn’t true. The United Nations has dedicated funds to pay countries that send their troops on peacekeeping missions and the United States also pledges funds for certain missions, as they did with the Kenyan mission to Haiti. These funds are supposed to be used to pay the soldiers and to help pay for replacement equipment and feeding the soldiers and such. But the country that sent the soldiers is the one reporting how much it costs them to feed the soldiers and pay their salaries. If they say it costs them $100,000 to maintain the peacekeeping force but it actually costs them $95,000 they get to just pocket $5,000.
A lot of the countries that regularly send peacekeepers are not known for their reliable accounting or lack of corruption. Brazil was the last country in Haiti and both its current and former presidents were known to be corrupt, with those under them probably not being any more discerning. India is another one with a questionable accounting record. It can be difficult to prove or disprove their payment requests and both the US and UN would rather a peacekeeping force exist than not exist so they are willing to throw extra money at the problem than embark on decades long forensic account campaigns against the 2 or 3 countries that were willing to volunteer. Not to mention even with a bit of graft it is still cheaper than the US or Europe doing it themselves with their own forces so again, it’s still a win just slightly more expensive than it could’ve been.
This is a known thing, the west just turns a blind eye because they get what they want for less than if they did it themselves so they don’t really care. Plus, these are peacekeeping missions, normally having very little active fighting. It’s rare that these deploy to active war zones and when they do it’s usually western militaries that lead them like the U.S. in the Korean peacekeeping mission. These countries aren’t sending their troops into the Somme or whatever wild fantasy you’ve crafted around the idea, theyre sending them to rural Haiti or something where they just walk around and poison the local water supply before going home.
@@Mankorra_Gomorrah
UN peace keeping funding doesn't add any substantial income stream to the country. Peace keeping is undertaken in charity manners till this date, there is no scope for revenue generation, at least for the countries currently involved with sending troops for UN peace missions. For example an average American earns 50,000+ dollars a month, that's the paper figure, in reality it will be higher, the population with such a productive workforce and income will never consider the puny income from the peace missions sustainable. peace missions fund may sustain day to day military funding or some government operations of under developed central African countries, but not for the countries which dream big. I don't think Argentina went that low. BTW greetings from Asia, may Argentina may prosper .
Things like this take years to see the results
we all know why he's not cutting but expanding the military budget - to repress the populace and trade unions
It's only a matter of time before the people finally have enough of him, and they try to do the same thing to him which they did to De la Rua
Its actually because past administrations legt the budget emptied, so if any country gets angry at argentina they could just walk there because they couldnt even pay for ammo, so no its not about repressing its about having something to not die instantly lol
@@HOI4notsoproplayer the military in Argentina was always used for cou'd etats...
He’s obviously doing it to get to the 2.0% target set out by nato to further align with the west
Good.
To the question on the thumbnail, no. Milei hasn't run out of steam. At all.
and he is the president every normal country with hard working people deserves
I’m here to read the comments, I dont waste my time watching videos about Milei, because 99% are wrong, purposely or by mistake for not checking the facts. My TLDR is, Milei is the best president in the history of Argentina, he’s heading to become a “procer” as his achievements in such short time are unmatched in the history of the world. He is killing inflation from a 20-25% a month to 3.5% in record times. He achieved a fiscal surplus in his first month, and this only happened for 10 years in the last 120 years of Argentina’s history. He is our savior, and many people who were going to flee the country if he didn’t win, like me, now have hope on seeing our country rise.
You want to hear what you want to hear. You aren't looking at the facts. The man gives you optimism, but sadly optimism doesn't feed people or put money in their pockets.
He’s doing an amazing job
Absolutely breathtaking that this video claims that lower inflation has not happened, despite even displaying the MoM inflation chart that unambiguously demonstrates that this plank of Milei's plan has been a huge success.
As an Argentinian, people in the comments are right! Instead of electing Milei, we should have reelected the Peronists, and we should have opened a new ministry to fix the ministry of economy 💪💪💪 we should have followed Venezuelas path! They are doing very well I hear, no idea why thousands of Venezuelans still choose to live in Argentina.
You're right brother, also Massa said that he was gonna create a digital peso, so he could ad more money to the economy by just typing some numbers in is computer, the inflation could have front 250% to 5.000% (a peronist said that bigger is better) he also said that was important to "regulate social media" and he was right, we currently has to much free speech.
Could've followed Mexico's path. Their economy is humming along while Argentina just found a new way to implode
@@fazshura yess!! My wet dream is Massa being supreme leader of Argentina. I wish he had won so the government would ban tweeter, just like they did in Brazil!! One step closer to my even wetter dream of being like Nicaragua and Belarus
@@KhaokiMexico is headed for a debt catastrophe in 15 years because their socialists gave people "free" stuff paid for by deficit spending.
But when it inevitably happens any faction except socialists will be blamed because "things were so much better under them."
Socialist governments are companies and their shareholders are the people. Who cares about long term sustainable growth? We need results now now now.
@@KhaokiMexico will not succeed, especially with leftists in power now.
If you are cutting healthcare and education spending before cutting military spending, something’s wrong. Deeply wrong.
Or you are not from argentina or you just are lying to youself. It was necessary and only touch the corrupt workers of the sector (dont BS me)
He released all that on each Province with no funds for them, maybe at the end of his term maybe 5 provinces would be liveable and the rest new desert zones with very little population.
He wants to join NATO it seems, and the minimum for that is 2% of gdp. Also Argentinians think it's a sensible move as the military was actually dismantled and never recovered.
@@blakepollock8074 This is Milei bs propaganda, everyone knows NATO will never accept a member that claims territory of one of the 5 most important members (Not to mention it's not SATO...). He wants military support because that does wonders for latin politicians, that's how Evo Morales stayed in power for so long.
Yeah, the fact that the same universitys that are asking for money because they can't pay yhe bills, are the same giving twerking classes.
My god they are so screwed
We are, this guy wont fix the country and the situation is worse than before
@hmttd2272 your a classic Argentinian, your expecting him to give in? Carry on destroying the country and print more money so you can all get your handouts on the IMF expense? He's been in 6 months, he made it clear expect things to get worse before they get better. Argentinians are directly responsible for allowing their politicians to be so irresponsible and allowing their political class to bribe them with subsidies and cheap government money all these decades
There is literally, no way that anyone with no amount of plannets align that could solve this problem without hurting the citenzenship.
Is like having a drug addict and you try to stop him consuming drugs, at the beggining it will be painful, stressful and horrible, but is for the best
@@martin-dw thats the retarded answer that a portion of our country repeats, milei promised that the consecuencies wouldnt be for the private sector. The handouts to people who dont work are bigger than before, you got scammed, sorry tho break it to you
@@hmttd2272 Milei is implementing radical measures, yes, but we were always screwed. Or you prefer to forget the past administration with uncontrollable inflation, depreciation of the currency, poverty that is not very different from today’s and worse knowing their solutions were printing more money and price controls that did nothing?
What do you mean run out of steam? The Economy has been crashing since he took over. The price index jumped 100 points (from 100 something to 200 something) in the first 3 months of his tenure.
The economy has been crashing since the last 13 years.
And the high inflation of the first 3 months was because the moronic guy that was the economy minister of the last goverment (and presidential candidate) printed pornogrphic amounts of money to try to win the elections.
Not even talking about 13 years of price controls.
I like Argentina, and I hope, that Milei will succeed. His policy can be an example for other countries which are ruined by Keynesianism and statism.
Ummm he is using Keynesian ideas …
@@Darkstarr-ud2go No he is using free market ideas.
@ no he’s not .. that Milton Friedman crap doesn’t work in the real world…just like libertarianism and communism don’t work …. They’re too susceptible to corruption and there aren’t enough controls in such large systems … obviously something needed to be done in Argentina but these draconian moves are going to lead to a disaster….
The only certain thing that austerity leads to is more austerity. To neoliberals the poor are never poor enough
To us Neoliberals, the poor will be better off in the long run through investments into bussinesses than just funneling money into the poor's pockets now.
@@foundationgamer9771 - will that happen before or after they die of starvation or treatable diseases due to the defunding of the health system? Asking for an Argentinian friend
he's not a neoliberal
@@foundationgamer9771you take away the impoverished peoples’ income, you shrink demand and weaken the economy. What neoliberals do not understand is how expensive being poor actually is. Debt is more expensive, subsistence grocery buying is more expensive, and the nickel and dimes that should go into bettering their lives are eaten by arbitrary fees from businesses that always want more. Neoliberalism has opened the door to corporate oligopolies and oligarchical political control, hence why there has been a wave of political extremes winning seats of power where it was previously impossible. Separate ideology from economics, and divest your identity from your politics and it will be more obvious.
@@xFlRSTx - as in "Milei is neoliberal on steroids" or "he's actually left wing"?
i still have hope for milei and argentina
Hope? He's already succeeded. By next year, it will be undeniable even for the haters.
@@marcv2648 Líberborregos hasta en un video inglés
Funny how he cuts the most important part of his country XD
Every "anarcho-capitalist" or right wing "libertarian" who ever gets power loves to "kill the state" when it comes to stuff like healthcare, education, old age care/pensions, research, environmental protections.
But when it comes to highways, cops, and the military they always seem to have a change of heart.
They dont actually hate the state, they just dont want competition for working class people's money. Theyre fine weilding the state like a club against those they prey upon.
Because they can't even afford it , they will reinvest in it once they can get their economy working.
The main problem that would bring Argentina EVEN MORE DOWN was the lack of military, and the thing was that investing in military was needed to avoid another crisis or even a civil war. Which would bring the economy even more down.
There are many easy misconceptions. For instance, the “devaluation” is not about exporting more. There’s the actual price of the peso and the official rate which was set by previous governments. “Devaluation” of the official rate is just about eliminating smoothly the controlled price of the peso. Also, the regularization of undisclosed savings is not about dollarizing, that’s not the way you do it (and it’s not certain that it is still the plan), it’s just a way of fueling up economic activity. Etc
Ah, as we all know you can cut everything and boost funding for the army. That won’t end badly at all /s
The increase in military spending was surprising and really bad imo. If he wants austerity then what he needs is not spending money on the military
not spending on the military when multiple violent threats are coming our way doesn't sound like a good idea... Maduro's Venezuela, Ortega's Nicaragua, Lula's Brazil, Evo's Bolivia , Castillo's Peru, sound alarm bells all throughout the large and highly permeable boder... internationally, the department of security of the us told Milei's govt. that Russia and palestine and iran are eyeing argentina with bad intentions... recently, a BOMB EXPLODED that was intended for the Sociedad Rural ARgentina's president... not to mention the internal problem with the so called mapuche tribes...
@@martincatoniryan1638 I really don't think any of those countries have any intention of invading Argentina or even enacting a blockade. I live in Brazil and here people mostly don't care about Argentine no nowadays.
After making my original comment I came to know Argentina's military is in very bad shape and so some increase in spending was needed. But I don't think it was needed now. Argentina just needs to pay its debt, lower its taxes, etc.
@@Testimony_Of_JTFthats why he said over 8 years. But i also think he wants to get in nato.
You forget that Argentina's border are more open that a prostitute's legs with black friday discont. And the goverment didn't invest in defense since 1990.
You need a defender force. Not only to fight a foreing invasión, but to fight drug and people traffic.
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